In the days before our flight, we talked a lot about what it was going to be like. We did a lot of pretend play where we set up seats in the family room or sat inside boxes and “flew” around the world in our minds. We walked the block and talked about how busy airports are and how important it is to stay together and calm as much as possible. We wondered about what it would be like to see clouds out the window and we spun our toy globe hundreds of times thinking about the distance of things.
Yeah… I mean, if I went back in time and did it all again, I would still do all those things but despite my best attempts to prepare myself and two toddlers for what was up ahead, we were still a grand hot mess at several parts of this international flight. All in all, I have to give it up to these little Oxley ladies because they did amazingly all things considered. They were so well behaved in the airports and with the help of stranger angels along the way… we managed.
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