Mama in the City: Hawaii 2.0: Let's Go Again!

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Mama in the City since 2008 and blogging since 2009!

Hi! I'm Andrea, a 30 something girl who loves living the downtown lifestyle and didn't want to give it up once I started a family. I live in beautiful Vancouver city right along the seawall and three years ago I had my first baby.

My first apartment baby is now a full on boy and we struggle with finding space in our condo for his growing toy collection. I'm also a new mum to our second apartment baby, born January 13, 2012!

I have a husband who is an excellent cook and takes amazing photos. I work as a labor and delivery nurse and really love the work that I do and gave birth to baby #2 at my work place.

I use this space to write about my family and to share my passion about breastfeeding, birth and parenting. I have a fantastic purse collection and have loved watching it grow, mostly lovely gifts over the years from my husband. I currently have a closet full of purses that are too small or impractical to fit a diaper or sippy cup in, and so they are on hold for future years.

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Hawaii 2.0: Let's Go Again!

Posted by Unknown August 18, 2010

Last September our boy had just turned 1 year old, and a few days later we left him with his grandparents while we jetted off to Maui for a couples vacation. We were in Hawaii a total of ten days, but with travel on both ends it was close to a fort night before we saw our boy. Who knew that you could actually survive a whole 2 weeks away from your 'just weaned' boy! While we were in Hawaii we talked a lot about Ben and missed him a whole bunch, but we also enjoyed time together as a married couple.

Together we had big plans to sleep through the night and wake up whenever we wanted to, and we did that and it was fantastic. We also wanted to enjoy late dinners and holding hands and remembering what it meant to just be together. We had such a fantastic vacation and came back to real life feeling connected and rejuvenated with the promise that we would make time for each other.

The thing is, life will always be busy and that is just the way it is. Even if you have no kids, or 1 kid or a whole bunch of kids, life gets busy and overly full and sometimes you need to remind yourself that it's time to reconnect with your partner.

I've definitely found that since going back to shift work it is harder to make time for date nights and quiet moments together. Couple that with parenthood and those moments get further apart. We both accept that as full time working parents we will have moments of chaos but we need to ensure that we celebrate our marriage together.

This means that we've booked another trip to Hawaii! I had some vacation time coming up and we thought it was a great opportunity to go on another couples vacation. Thanks to my generous family, Ben will have his own wee vacation in the comfort of their home. I know many families who choose to vacation together as a family unit, but we decided that a week spent together to kick up our heels and enjoy ourselves as a couple, was beneficial to our family unit too!

I'm sure one day Ben will be lucky enough to splash in the surf of Hawaii alongside us, but for now we've got a trip planned to Kauai for just the two of us, my husband and I!