Introducing Sisterhood of the Traveling Moms

It is a New Year and a new fun hobby for this Mom of 2 gorgeous Littles. I have always throughly enjoyed traveling and writing so I thought why not conjoin the two and create a little 'me time' through this blog. 

My name is Caelan. I am a born American but I refer to myself a lot as an 'international kid', as most of my life has been lived overseas. It has been such a gift to me to have been raised overseas from the time I was 10-18 years old. My parents were teachers and decided to head to Belgium to teach at international schools for what was supposed to be a couple of years. It ended up being 8 beautiful years spent learning from teachers from all around the world, peers from all around the world, and luckily got to travel all around the world at such a young age. It got in my blood- this love for travel. This love for diversity. This love for the world. What an experience!

So at 18, I went back to the States for college. Four years later, went right back overseas. A few months spent in Switzerland and flash forward to now and I am about to complete my 8th year in the United Arab Emirates! Wow! How fast it has gone too. I came to Dubai at 23 for my first 'real' job teaching English to colleagues at a waterpark. This was supposed be a year gig- which ended up turning into many more years of living in this beautiful country. I met my now husband, Will and we have 2 gorgeous kiddos- Livi who is 3 and Ben who is almost 8 months.

Having been so thankful for the experience my parents gave me, I want to share the same type of experience with our kiddos. I want them to travel. I want them to understand and appreciate different cultures, beliefs, places. I want them to create life long friends from all over this world. I want them to explore and not be afraid to do so. I want them to have an understanding and appreciation of the two countries their parents come from (America and England).

There is a quote that is going to be my Mommy Mantra and it goes, "There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One of them is roots and the other, wings."

My husband and I had a joke going on between us when Livi was under 1 year old and it was that how ever many months she was at the time, is the same number of planes she had been on. So when she was 5 months she had been on 5 airplanes. When she was 10 months, she had been on 10 airplanes. etc. The funny part was, it was accurate. Ben is now in the same position. At 7 months, he has been on 7 planes. I can't even count how many Livi has been on now. This blog will be based around traveling with little kids- the good, the hard, the trying, the funny and the beautiful! I hope whoever reads, enjoys this and if nobody ends up reading, at least I'll have something to pull up and read with my kids and husband one day. xoxo