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ecently I went for a long weekend in the NSW snowfields. My husband and I took our young children, and we were travelling with my husband’s family. I was equal parts excited and petrified as this would be the first time we took our kids away, anywhere, let alone in freezing temperatures. I was manic in my preparation. How many outfits for each kid? How many nappies for each day? Which toys have the best fun to packed space ratio? I was up to 2 am the night before, still packing and finalising all the things we needed to take, while also trying to keep the number of suitcases to a minimum. Finally, the day came, and we loaded the kids into the car and set off on our 6-hour car ride. It actually went quite well. We
stopped twice as our daughter is teething and she was not at all happy to be in the car for long stretches at a time. The first night at the snow was hell. That’s when on top of teething, our daughter developed a fever. To make matters worse, our heating wasn’t working, so our room temperature dropped below 8 degrees Celsius, while my daughter’s temp was soaring above 38 degrees. Not to be out-done, our son swung full kilter into the terrible twos that very weekend. He even pushed the envelope further by refusing to eat most of the weekend. So, he survived on hot chips, some sultans, a muesli bar, three apples, a bread roll, a handful of grapes and half a bowl of watermelon.
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