I am planning to go to WisCon. Memberships will probably still be available in January, but it's probably safer to just buy them now and plan to sell them if need be. (Selling memberships is very easy.) Also, you'll want childcare (it's EXCELLENT, provided by day care professionals, and free or nearly-free) and you should sign up for that ASAP, it fills before the memberships sell out.
Definitely go ahead and book hotel rooms now. I have no idea whether adjoining rooms are available, but ESPECIALLY if you want something like that, book now.
No one looks askance at sleeping babies at room parties. Sometimes people look mildly askance at obviously overtired preschoolers whose parents don't want to take them up and put them to bed because then they'd have to leave the party.
I have gotten a passport for an older infant. It was a PITA. First I couldn't find anywhere to do the photo. Then I found a passport issuing site that did them, but it was the big government center where you take a number and wait for a couple of hours. Ed had to sign a notarized statement giving me permission to get her a passport, since he wouldn't be present to apply for it. After all that, we almost weren't able to get it because Molly, who was normally incredibly mellow and friendly, freaked out completely and a passport photo of a CRYING baby is apparently Not Acceptable. A disgruntled baby is OK, though, and she did eventually calm down. But the requirements of size, angle, etc. are very specific and getting my older kids to cooperate was difficult enough, never mind an infant.
After all that, have we EVER taken them abroad? No. We have not. Despite having a friend in the foreign service who'd have put us up in Beijing! Flying is just too damn expensive right now to go anywhere interesting.
Oh, and:
9. Is it insane to think about traveling 600-1000 miles with a preschooler and a small infant and all staying together in one hotel room?
We travel by plane every year to visit Ed's family. It's not that big a deal. I mean, it is a pain in all sorts of ways but it's do-able.
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Date: 2008-08-30 01:34 am (UTC)Definitely go ahead and book hotel rooms now. I have no idea whether adjoining rooms are available, but ESPECIALLY if you want something like that, book now.
No one looks askance at sleeping babies at room parties. Sometimes people look mildly askance at obviously overtired preschoolers whose parents don't want to take them up and put them to bed because then they'd have to leave the party.
I have gotten a passport for an older infant. It was a PITA. First I couldn't find anywhere to do the photo. Then I found a passport issuing site that did them, but it was the big government center where you take a number and wait for a couple of hours. Ed had to sign a notarized statement giving me permission to get her a passport, since he wouldn't be present to apply for it. After all that, we almost weren't able to get it because Molly, who was normally incredibly mellow and friendly, freaked out completely and a passport photo of a CRYING baby is apparently Not Acceptable. A disgruntled baby is OK, though, and she did eventually calm down. But the requirements of size, angle, etc. are very specific and getting my older kids to cooperate was difficult enough, never mind an infant.
After all that, have we EVER taken them abroad? No. We have not. Despite having a friend in the foreign service who'd have put us up in Beijing! Flying is just too damn expensive right now to go anywhere interesting.
Oh, and:
9. Is it insane to think about traveling 600-1000 miles with a preschooler and a small infant and all staying together in one hotel room?
We travel by plane every year to visit Ed's family. It's not that big a deal. I mean, it is a pain in all sorts of ways but it's do-able.