Kidspot Top 50 Blog Your Way To Dunk Island

"It's too hard."

"All you're doing is transferring the feeding, sleeping and disciplining to another place."

"Kids find travelling boring."

"It isn't worth it."

I hear so many people saying phrases like these, and to them I say: No, no, no, NO! (or in the words of my twenty-three-month-old daughter, Abbey, "noo-noo-noo-nooo").

There is so much to enjoy about heading away with your family. It doesn't have to be anywhere fancy, just a change of scenery is often all it takes.

One thing I love about a family holiday is that it's uninterrupted time together. No work to do, nowhere to rush off to; nothing else demanding our attention. It's all about having fun.

And there is one thing I adore above all else when it comes to travelling with my family: the memories. Looking back over photos, I'm hit with dozens, no - millions, of memories of not just the things we saw and did, but that time we shared together.

I'd love to share a handful of those memories with you...

Every picture tells a story, and sometimes first glance is a little deceiving. This one looks so lovely - a baby peacefully flicking through a book. Right? Soon after this photo was taken, we had to remove the book as she not just chewed on it, but ate it.

Abbey was perfecting her standing skills during our trip, by getting daring and trying to stand without holding on. She perfected it in the tent in the middle of the Australian desert and was SO proud of herself!

This photo will always remind me of the importance of travelling a little slower with a child in tow. We were driving - as you tend to do a lot of through the centre of this huge red land! - and Abbey was over it. Completely. Over. It.

We stopped to give her a break from the car seat but, being rocky, prickly ground, we didn't want to put her down to crawl. Instead, we made it a dance stop - she and I spun and twirled around and danced our energy away.

You can see how much Abbey loved it.

We shared our love of wine with our baby girl when we had an impromptu stop in the Barossa Valley. As in, she loved playing in the vineyards and we loved sampling the produce offered in the area.




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Megan