What I'm missing the most

There are lots of things you can't do during pregnancy: wine, sushi, delicious unpasteurized cheeses...travel to warm places because of Zika virus...but the thing I'm missing the most is skiing (ok and maybe the apres ski Moscow Mules from the Little Nell)!

As a kid, my parents would take my brother, sister, and I skiing almost every weekend through the winter. My mom would pack up the old wood-paneled station wagon and then when my dad got home from working all day in the city, we'd hit the road for a 6h drive from Long Island to Stratton (VT). My sister almost always got sick, and then there was the usual sibling stuff - the fights over who would sit in the middle or who would get the all-the-way-in-the-back seat - all sans iPhones/iPads for music and video distractions to pass the time. Just plain old family car trip fun! Then there was the lugging of gear, the endless laundry, and the cleaning up after all of us that I sooo could not appreciate at the time. Now that we do our own ski trips with the girls, I get it! Ski trips are no small feat for a family... but those were some of the best memories that I had growing up and I am so grateful that my parents did that for us weekend after weekend, year after year!! 

Last year we had so much fun skiing. One weekend we took the girls and their friends skiing at Stratton and then made our first movie with the GoPro footage! Check it out (here).

While I practically never fall skiing, it just seems unreasonable to risk getting slammed into by another skier and jeopardize our little monkey, so I'm taking a seat on the sidelines this year and am looking forward to next year when we can all hit the trails together again...