In the PBE, I remember looking at my friends and family who had kids and marvelling at the sheer amount of stuff that they brought with them everywhere that they went. Even for a short visit, there seemed to be more bags than people and I was pretty sure that the stuff outweighed the family. In my naivety, I believed that we would be much more streamlined when we finally got round to having children.
Ha. I feel that I need to apologise to anyone who I ever judged for packing the world when they took their baby out. Even venturing out for dinner requires military precision to pack everything into Kelsey's small car. We arrived at a friend's house last week and when they opened the door, they queried whether we had come for food or to stay for the night.
This weekend, things were even worse. My parents live in Milton Keynes, which is around 3 hours by car from Leeds so when we go to visit, we typically go for a weekend. Beyond the simple holdall of our clothes, we took:
- a car seat
- a bassinet which clips into the pram base but also serves for a useful nap spot downstairs
- a small holdall full of clothes, nappies and wipes
- his rainforest playmat, complete with a giraffe with a rainbow poking out of it's head
- his nappy bag for short journeys
- a jute bag with 11 sterilised bottles and a packet of formula
- the feeding pillow
- the baby monitor kit
Before there's any comments of overpacking, we used everything that we took with us. It's just incredible how much stuff someone that small needs!
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