Magic Mmmm Monday?

You know those pictures that photographers are doing right now with baby girls?  Where the baby girl is surrounded by all the boys in her family who are holding signs that say if you mess with her you have to go through each of them.  I even saw one picture where the dad was in it holding a shotgun over his shoulder.  Fine.  I have no issue with that.  I guess.  BUT.  Why can't it be like, "If you mess with her, she's going to fuck you up herself because we (mom included) are going to teach her how to be a badass." 

Eh, but anyway.

Speaking of children, let me give you some advice.  Gather 'round, now.  It's easy advice, and it's this:  TRAVEL THEN HAVE KIDS.  Oh my god.  We're trying to start planning some version of a honeymoon, which for us involves Paris, France.  We've attached some kind of meaning to it over the years, and I think if we go anywhere else at this point, we'll just be upset that it's not Paris.  I emailed some dates to a travel agent friend who basically wrote that she recommends a longer length of time, and without that, she thinks this isn't the trip for us to take right now.  God damn it.  She's right.  A trip all the way to France that is less than a week may in fact be too much jet lag and too overwhelming.  But, to have this experience and not continue to wait indefinitely, it's kind of all we've got.  Plus, we've at least both already been there, so some of the touristy shit is already done.  I kind of just want Joe to take me around the town and woo me.  Let's walk around, eat some good food, hit some wineries, go up in the tower, go up to Orleans and see where Joe went to school for a year.  And then come the hell on home. 

People without kids will say that your kid will be fine.  And most likely your kid will be, so long as you can find a grandparent off work that can watch them for the duration of your trip.  But what non-parents can't know.  Because you just don't know this until you have a kid, which is where my erroneous thinking began in "oh we'll still be able to travel after we have kids" is that yes, you can find a way to be able to travel.  But as much as your kid rips through your sanity day after day after day, you will not want to be away from them for very long.  Maybe I'll feel differently when she's older.  In like ten years.  But right now, the thought of being away from her for the recommended week and a half to take a proper trip strikes fear and sadness into my heart.  One, because I'll miss her.  Two, because I didn't see this coming.  Three, duh. 

So that's that.  I had sad time earlier when I realized that I've planned my life a little backwards.  But I'm fucking 30 now and trying to appreciate what I do have more, so enough of that; I can still have a kid and take a trip.  But if you do not yet have kids, than take your trip now.  Do that.