Travelling Light

I was just looking back and was surprised to find I hadn't written a blog entry since the end of May.  Granted June was pretty busy with school ending and then we were in Ontario at the beginning of July and BC at the end.  But I still feel a little bad. . .I hope the baby doesn't read this someday and assume that 2 months of no entries means I wasn't thinking about him.  Definitely not the case.

Summer has been wonderful so far.  We've had lots of time to just relax and hang out (maybe too much for Jahn?) and taken some great trips, too.  The first trip we took (home to Ottawa) inspired our motto for the summer: Travel Light.  

As Jahn and I sat at the airport, me with my purse and him with just a newspaper, we started watching parents of babies and little children go by.  And we definitely noticed a common theme: stuff.  Lots of stuff.  Just before boarding our plane, we watched a mum go by, pushing a stroller/car seat combo and followed by her husband carrying no fewer than 27 reusable shopping bags, all with baby stuff spilling out.  I think at that moment, Jahn and I simultaneously came to the realization that we were looking at the future.  And not just any future, but our very near future.  Ok, so we might be able to do a little better than 27 bags of stuff.   But by our trip home at Christmas, we will certainly be toting more than a newspaper and purse.  

So we've purposefully spent the rest of our vacation time travelling as light as possible and enjoying every moment of it.  Because in 8 more weeks (give or take) travelling light will become a distant memory.