A YEAR ABROAD WITH SOLLY BABY

You might remember a few years back I made a video “A Year with Solly Baby“, which was a compilation of videos of me wearing Lulu in her Solly Wrap from the time she was born until she turned one. I had such a wonderful time making that video that I teamed up with Solly Baby to make another video for them. The results of those compiled clips is below, and I can’t tell you how happy I am to have them, and to share this video with you. Solly Baby asked me to write a few words about our time living abroad and this is what I told them…

“For the past two years we’ve been living abroad, having moved to a small town outside of London when I was pregnant with our third child. We were drawn to Europe from the Pacific Northwest by the lure of collecting passport stamps, and a desire to show our kids new food, art, scenery, and cultures. When our son was just a couple weeks old, we applied for his passport and soon started filling it, and ours, with those stamps. We’ve hiked around beautiful lakes and eaten Cornish pasties in England; climbed peaks and fortress steps in Salzburg; sipped beers in Belgium, and eaten ice cream in Amsterdam; wandered by Picasso and Gaudí in Barcelona; and splashed in Norwegian fjords. For much of that time with our baby happily observing, snoozing, or nursing in our Solly Wrap.
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Traveling with our kids was always something we dreamed of, an idea that we valued, and with a lot of hard work we were able to make a reality. Traveling with children is not always easy, but it’s always worth it. I keep that in mind as a mantra as I plan our greatest adventure yet – a six month long journey that will take us through Europe, Great Britain, and across the United States back ‘home’ … though we’ve learned that home can have so many definitions and nuances: a cozy place to sleep, a fragrant baguette, a familiar book, or a wrap that holds your baby close and secure in an unfamiliar, exciting place.”