I am pumped to say - I am back! And this time around I am going to do my very best to dedicate time and energy to this blog.
In the past year we have traveled to 11 countries across five continents, moved house and made a life changing decision to move to London for an un-defined period of time this Fall.
Throughout our travels to dozens of cities I have had random conversations with many people, this is how it generally takes place - Mylo strikes up the conversation with a stranger by throwing them his ball, playing peek-a-boo or just walking over to them and once he has their attention, BAM. He points at the ceiling, says "da" and he instantly has their full attention. At this point, I have to awkwardly step in as he only knows around 15 words and they don't string together, yet...
Many of these people have asked about us, our family and what we are doing - how old is your son? 15 months. Whats his name? Mylo. Myler? Mylo. Mylos? No, Mylo. Oh Mylo. Yep. Where is that from? We made it up, its short for My Love. Ohhhh thats so sweet! Thanks :) Where do you live? Boston. What do you do in Boston? My husband is going to school there (we try not to get in to the which school, business school, MIT? No, Harvard. Oh Harvard? Yeh, Harvard). What do you do? Nothing really, hang out with Mylo and our friends. Where are you traveling? *insert (generally warm) destination here*.
Often these conversations end in us revealing that Mylo is extremely well travelled and that we have many exciting adventures planned. Dozens of people ask if they can add me to Facebook to *follow* us, which always gets me thinking about this blog, and what I intended it to be before I realized how little time a baby leaves you to think, let alone write, let alone write things on the internet that you think people will actually want to read.
The introduction to motherhood at 24 years of age and two years away from the workplace has been a source of the greatest understanding, strength and joy for me as well as a time to reflect, worry and and doubt myself - some days I am riddled with self doubt it is overwhelming. Writing this blog about our travel has been something I have been putting off because I have been scared. Scared that no one will read it, scared that it won't be interesting, scared that is wouldn't be relevant. Well, I have decided that I am going to put all of those worries aside and write it anyway, and if no one reads it besides my Dad and my Grandma - that is OK.
In the upcoming months we will take a three week trip West Coast of the USA and Canada, my Husband will graduate from Harvard Business School and we are planning to travel to Italy, Turkey, UAE, Brazil and Peru.
It will be fun. We will be adventurous. I would love to take you along for the ride!
