How To Vacation Mom
The Girl Next Door Podcast
Kelsey Wharton
4.8 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Moms, pack your swimsuit and emotional baggage, we're going on vacation!
We explore the experience of being a mom on vacation and how to make the best of it, from planning, to family time, and doing what we love too.
For Friends of the Show on Patreon, we share what we think our kids will remember about us on vacation, the good and the bad!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Girl Next Door. I'm Kelsey. And I'm Erica. In every episode, we bring our different |
| 0:08.7 | perspectives to candid conversations that feel like chatting with good friends. We started this show |
| 0:13.7 | years ago when we were next door neighbors and still haven't run out of things to talk and laugh about |
| 0:18.5 | yet. Okay, I love today's topic. We are chatting about how to |
| 0:23.6 | be a mom on vacation. It's a specific thing. It really is. Yeah. If you are a parent, you know that |
| 0:30.3 | going on vacation with your children can be much more trip than vacation. But we feel passionately |
| 0:36.0 | that moms get a vacation too, |
| 0:37.8 | so we'll have lots of thoughts and ideas about how to do that. |
| 0:41.5 | For friends of the show on Patreon, |
| 0:43.2 | we'll be talking about what we think our kids will remember about us on vacation, |
| 0:47.3 | the good and the bad. |
| 0:49.2 | And we have some great past episodes on travel that we will link to in the show notes. |
| 0:54.6 | Okay, so I want to open with something that inspired this episode topic, which is a headline |
| 1:00.6 | from the spoof news site, The Onion. |
| 1:02.9 | I literally think about this headline every time I travel with my family, and it is this. |
| 1:08.7 | Mom spends beach vacation assuming all household duties in closer proximity to the ocean. |
| 1:15.3 | It's funny because it's true. |
| 1:17.8 | So can we just take a minute to explore the truth and frustration of that headline? |
| 1:22.4 | Yes. |
| 1:23.0 | First of all, it's especially true the younger your kids are. |
| 1:26.5 | Because kids don't. Yeah, you can't get away from it. It's just, there's especially true the younger your kids are. Because kids don't. |
| 1:27.8 | Yeah, you can't get away from it. |
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