Comments on: Serendipity amid the planning https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/03/serendipity-amid-the-planning/ Writer, Author, Speaker Fri, 25 Mar 2022 13:36:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Pankti https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/03/serendipity-amid-the-planning/#comment-325321 Tue, 22 Mar 2022 15:48:29 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18485#comment-325321 A couple years ago when I first discovered you, in one of your books you had mentioned something along the lines of a bad moment, doesn’t a mean a bad vacation. While toddler tantrums on vacations didn’t really bother me before (I mean, they’re kids. They’ll throw a tantrum at home, and they’ll throw a tantrum on vacation), I love this mindset. I use it all the time now. It helped me get through a flight to Hawaii, several longer car rides, and many random smaller adventures around our town. So, thank you!

]]> By: Laura Vanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/03/serendipity-amid-the-planning/#comment-325272 Tue, 22 Mar 2022 11:28:22 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18485#comment-325272 In reply to Lisa of Lisa’s Yarns.

@Lisa – yep it turns out that when people gather, germs spread. My little guy probably is making up for lost time…

]]> By: Laura Vanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/03/serendipity-amid-the-planning/#comment-325112 Mon, 21 Mar 2022 20:14:27 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18485#comment-325112 In reply to Elisa.

@Elisa – I haven’t been there! Maybe the next place to try!

]]> By: Laura Vanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/03/serendipity-amid-the-planning/#comment-325111 Mon, 21 Mar 2022 20:14:09 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18485#comment-325111 In reply to Elisabeth.

@Elisabeth – it was something. I couldn’t eat for most of the evening after the experience (or maybe my nausea was because I had a mild version of it…who knows…).

]]> By: Lisa of Lisa's Yarns https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/03/serendipity-amid-the-planning/#comment-325104 Mon, 21 Mar 2022 19:30:16 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18485#comment-325104 You are lucky to live in an area where you can do a quick day trip to DC! I’m in Minnesota where it takes 3 hours just to drive up to see my parents in the same state! I lived in Charlotte, NC for a year and while the city was not a fit for me, I appreciated that there was so much to see and do within a 3 hour drive!

It seems like a stomach bug is sweeping the nation. I’ve never known of so many people whose houses have been hit by the flu. I hope Henry’s puking was a fluke, though. 3 of out of 4 of us got the stomach bug – my 4yo had it ON his birthday! I think the baby had the same virus but didn’t puke – his doctor told us this virus is hitting families hard and is quite the shape shifter so will give people very different symptoms.

]]> By: Elisabeth https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/03/serendipity-amid-the-planning/#comment-325103 Mon, 21 Mar 2022 19:27:57 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18485#comment-325103 Your calm in the middle of this always blows me away. And look at the beautiful pictures you have a result!!

Vomit – even the mention of it fills my heart with dread. Vomiting personally is horrific. But having a child sick is…I’m literally feeling nauseous as I type this…I absolutely loathe it (not that anyone welcomes it…but I have this visceral reaction to it that always takes me by surprise).
I have dealt with blood and split chins and fevers and rashes without batting an eye…but vomiting does me in.

]]> By: Elisa https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/03/serendipity-amid-the-planning/#comment-325075 Mon, 21 Mar 2022 17:13:05 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18485#comment-325075 Have you been to Branch Brook Park in Newark, NJ? The cherry blossoms are set to bloom next week and I’m watching that bloomcam like a hawk, too!

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