{"id":9816,"date":"2015-12-28T20:44:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T01:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=9816"},"modified":"2016-01-29T14:56:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T19:56:11","slug":"9816","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/28\/9816\/","title":{"rendered":"Packing Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We&#8217;re heading to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/06\/doing-disney-with-a-toddler\/\">Disney<\/a> for a few days but with 4 kids ranging in age from 3 months to 7 years,\u00a0even just a short <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/29\/ready-for-the-road\/\">trip up the road<\/a> involves major planning, preparation and most of all, packing! \u00a0I&#8217;ve become pretty good at packing with all the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/oh-the-places-weve-been\/\">family traveling <\/a>we&#8217;ve done over the years and have developed myself some fool-proof packing lists for each age and stage but what I haven&#8217;t gotten good at after all these years is the division of packing responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Here is my husband&#8217;s packing list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>His clothes (shorts, t-shirts, unders and socks)<\/li>\n<li>His sandals<\/li>\n<li>His facewash and contacts\/solution<\/li>\n<li>Toothbrush<\/li>\n<li>Bathing suit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/wpid-20151228_192914.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" title=\"20151228_192914.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/wpid-20151228_192914.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my packing list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My clothes (bottoms, tops, unders, tanks, pajamas)<\/li>\n<li>Clothes for kid 1 (bottoms, tops, unders, pajamas)<\/li>\n<li>Clothes for kid 2 (bottoms, tops, unders, pajamas)<\/li>\n<li>Clothes for kid 3 (bottoms, tops, pajamas including an extra change of clothes)<\/li>\n<li>Clothes for kid 4 (bottoms, tops, pajamas, multiple extra changes of clothes)<\/li>\n<li>Diapers for kid 3<\/li>\n<li>Diapers for kid 4<\/li>\n<li>Wipes<\/li>\n<li>Bathing suits for myself and 4 kids (including swim diapers for kids 3 and 4)<\/li>\n<li>My shoes<\/li>\n<li>Two pairs of shoes for each kid (except kid 4 who doesn&#8217;t walk yet)<\/li>\n<li>My shampoo, conditioner and face wash<\/li>\n<li>Kids&#8217; shampoo<\/li>\n<li>Baby shampoo<\/li>\n<li>My toothbrush and toothpaste<\/li>\n<li>Toothbrushes and kids&#8217; toothpaste for kids 1, 2, and 3<\/li>\n<li>Hairbrush and plenty of ponies and clips<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/10\/baby-travel-toiletries\/\">Travel bag of emergency medicines and supplies<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Blankets and lovies for kids 1, 2, and 3<\/li>\n<li>Play yard\/travel cot<\/li>\n<li>Sheet for travel cot<\/li>\n<li>Books, toys and soft animals for kids 1, 2, and 3 for the car ride<\/li>\n<li>Toys and teethers for the baby for in the car and when I want to eat<\/li>\n<li>Bibs for the baby (who is a constant drooling mess)<\/li>\n<li>My breastpumps, bottles, dish soap and bottle brush for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/07\/way-too-much-of-a-good-thing\/\">managing excess milk<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Snacks for everyone<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/wpid-20151228_192816.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" title=\"20151228_192816.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/wpid-20151228_192816.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t quite seem fair, does it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/532269249691200121\/\">Pin it<\/a> or share it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/532269249691200121\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9888 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/packing.jpg\" alt=\"packing\" width=\"1427\" height=\"1352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/packing.jpg 1427w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/packing-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/packing-600x568.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/packing-264x250.jpg 264w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/packing-1024x970.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/packing-1000x947.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/packing-390x370.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1427px) 100vw, 1427px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re heading to Disney for a few days but with 4 kids ranging in age from 3 months to 7 years,\u00a0even just a short trip up the road involves major planning, preparation and most of all, packing! \u00a0I&#8217;ve become pretty good at packing with all the family traveling we&#8217;ve done over the years and have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16,12],"tags":[441,440,49],"class_list":["post-9816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baby-business","category-breastfeeding","category-tiny-travellers","tag-family-travel","tag-packing","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9816"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9891,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9816\/revisions\/9891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}