Over the last two weeks, I’ve been travelling around the South Island of New Zealand with my hubby and 10 month old son Maksim. We still have another week to go, which is amazing 🎉

It’s been such a beautiful, tiring, amazing, frustrating, eyegasming experience.

Mostly beautiful, when bubs isn’t screaming in the back seat because his first 4 teeth decided to rear there heads on these particular HOLIDAY weeks. Anyway.

We’ve been travelling the country side in a 4 door hatch back corolla and staying in Air BnBs and motels, 1 to 2 nights per stay.

Just imagine how many times, that requires unpacking, packing up, setting up, cleaning up, making sure the place is baby proof so my martial artist baby doesn’t break anything or hurt himself.

Can you picture it now?

My initial thoughts when it comes to absolutely anything in life is …” I can do it, no worries.” Haha that’s my motto that I say to myself, especially when I decide to do things that can be a little challenging.

My thoughts in between the process change to, oh god, why did I do this?! How am I going to survive?! What if this happens etc etc etc.

But after those shitty and NORMAL thoughts, I just get on with it. The world provides enough beauty around us that I forget those stresses in life and I enjoy the scenery around me with my beautiful family! And I know that my husband and son feel the same way.

Especially, when I catch a glimpse of my son seeing something he has never seen before. It really inspires me to take him anywhere and everywhere. And it makes me less fearful of parenthood, because we are learning and seeing things together.

It hasn’t been easy, but it hasn’t be hard either.

We take each day as it comes, and I think the best thing I did was give us enough time (3 weeks) to be able to chill on some days, rather then the typical go, go, go holiday.

It’s such a pleasure being able to travel with a baby, and an amazing husband that does so much for both of us!! We thank you papa 😘

Photos of our trip so far are below: