mother/daughter trip

Having a big family is such a blessing.  I always wanted lots of kids, and I am very happy with our three.  But one of the challenges is creating one-on-one time with each child.

I take a trip every November to do a retreat with Amma.  When the children were younger we took them all, but with school schedules and travel expenses we have decided to just have me go.

I went one year and it was nice, but kind of lonely.  So after that I decided to take one of the kids with me every year.

First I took Annabel.  We had a great time.

This year was Skylar's turn.  We had so much fun.  We flew to California and stayed for a few nights. The first day we toured Stanford University with a friend.  Then we checked into our hotel and went to the retreat.  We ate lots of yummy Indian food. We had snacks from Whole Foods, which was a walk from our hotel.  We saw friends. And we saw Amma.  We got hugged.  We listened to talks and got inspired. We got connected to each other and to ourselves.  And then we went home to rejoin the family.