I’ve never tried to make this look easy. If you’ve been following along you know I don’t sugarcoat the travel. Some days are brutal. Some days go better than I expected. But it is never easy, not once, not one leg of one trip. It is always hard. The only variable is how hard. And…
It looks like a leap from the outside. But it wasn’t a leap — it was a long road. Here’s how we actually did it: moved abroad with four kids under six, no burndowns, no dramatic exits. Just years of quietly building a runway.
Boundless does a one-week break in the middle of the three-month cohort, and the second we knew the dates, we knew where we wanted to go. The Dolomites had been on the list for ages, and I’d been quietly obsessing over the idea of a Kinderhotel (one of those Alpine hotels built entirely around families,…
This is the first one. No script, no plan, just Chris and I on the terrace drinking tea trying and actually putting into words our initial impressions of Italy and our new home. We talk about what surprised us, what’s been harder than we thought, and the stuff neither of us said out loud until…
Moving to Italy with four kids under six? Here’s what nobody tells you about the first 72 hours as an American family in Tuscany.
There’s a place that’s quietly held more of our life than we ever planned for. Our lake house on Lake Keowee. It’s about an hour from Greenville, and about two from Atlanta. For years it was the easiest escape we had, and somehow always the most meaningful one too. How It Became Ours Chris’s brother…
If I’m being honest, this might be the hardest part of all of it.
Not the packing. Not traveling internationally with four little kids.
It’s this. Putting myself out there.
We’ve done this before. This was actually our third time doing this exact trip. Same setup, same idea behind it. And at this point, it’s less of a trip and more of a tradition. Before each of our boys turns three, we take them to Disney. Just us and them. No siblings, no split attention….
Greenville, South Carolina → Canada — February 2026 One of the decisions nobody warns you about when you decide to travel long-term with your family is what to do with your dog. Denver came into our lives about ten years ago, during one of the hardest seasons we’ve been through. We had just moved to…
Six Trips. Eight Months. A Whole Lot of Sunscreen. Chris & Courtney | February 2026 This is our sixth trip to Costa Rica as a family in the last five years. When we zoom out and really think about that, it feels significant. Not just six plane rides. Not just six vacations. Over the last…
