7 Quick Takes–Travel Anxiety

Is this true? Southwest Airlines allows you to take luggage on the plane for free? I’m stunned. And a car seat or stroller extra? Has anyone told them what all the other airlines are doing? DON’T though, before I travel.

Even with luggage, I’m nervous about flying with all these kids. I mean, I did fly home from California gravely pregnant with four kids by myself. So, with two of us, and the lung capacity to do a fast sprint down the length of a terminal, we should be fine, right?

Really, what it comes down to, is that I’ve spent the Entire Course of my life trying not to draw attention to myself when traveling. And I’ve gotten to be very good at it. And here I am, about to just willingly chuck that out the window, all because I’m that desperate for a proper holiday.

Its just that, as I sit here gazing out at the heat rising up in great waves, (I’m not speaking for Matt, maybe he has thought this all the way through) I didn’t premeditate having six children in ten years. So, I don’t feel like I’ve quite caught up. So that’s definitly something I should work on before flying.

Just like I didn’t plan on having three sets of dishes. I’m grateful for them all. I love them. I don’t know how to properly store them. Not that I’m storing my children. They all fit just fine.

Or maybe its like being saved from sin. Its not something you make plans for. God just does it out of his great mercy, and then you can just sit back and be ever so grateful.

Just like I’ll be when we’re there safe and sound, sitting back in a beautiful garden, drinking something more lovely than we ever imagine or deserve. As my psychopathology professor used to drawl, “Its goonnnaaaa bee okaaaay. You’re gooonnnaaaaa beeee okaaaaay.”

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