A delicate balancing act: Part 1

Airport drop complete.

Have to stand in line for check in even though I've printed online boarding passes as Jet Blue requires that you do standard check in you have luggage and/or lap child (both).

Emergency bathroom run with Kieran while trying to do said check-in while we are at the counter. At least we get to come back to the front of the line when we get back.

Just us (Kieran, Akira, and I), my 2 nap sacks of food, snacks, and entertainment, my bag stuffed with 3 (yes three) full size pillows and several previously filched and much used airplane blankets, and our HUGE double stroller.

Through security with 2 large bottles of water, a litter of drinking kefir, tubes of creme and such exceeding 2 oz (I'm going to miss having young kids and being able to pull all of this off with a smile and a "its for the kids"), and down to waiting... and another emergency bathroom run (thanks to the god(s) above that these are happening off plane rather than on).

Now entertaining at gate A2.

How do spit balls rate on the Homeland Security Advisory System?

In Eager Anticipation

So after a weeks of prep, converting books on tapes and movies to MP3s and MP4s and 3g2s and mixing and matching media so that I had every contingency and two separate media devices packed full of choices, after making lists, trying to pack with care, sorting through all of the power cables I'd need to support all this rapcay (pig-Latin), putting together packs of games, little books, markers, balloons, stuff stuff stuff - we were ready to go.

Kieran, in great anticipation as he was waiting to get ready for the flight, fell fast asleep as shown. I of course took a photo before waking him up. Would not do to have him nap before trying to take an overnight flight (something I don't think I'll do again, but more on that later).