The madness of preps have kicked off. After we’ve made a decision that we are going to give it a go and take a career break, to spend more time with kids and make our dreams of travelling come true, now its time to make and start executing ‘to do’ list. What’s on it?

• sell all unnecessary furniture (that means literally all of it; inducing a sofa, which survived 2 years of kids play time, burp time, wee time, food dropping; milk spilling, jumping to the point of breaking armrests. Good old sofa.)
• sell car; still can’t work out if we should keep baby car seats or not
• sell endless amount of baby toys; walkers; travel cots and pushchairs
• buy new travel cots and pushchairs (bare with me, there is actually some logic behind it)
• giveaway some books, clothes, toys, shoes and other things we collected over time, that we’ve grown out of either physically or mentally (I find putting things in charity bags actually bit liberating)
• find temporary home for all the things we want to keep like shoes (obviously!) cook books etc.
• book flights (that should probably be on the top of the list; since we still have 2 flights that need to be planned)
• do travel immunisation
• book travel insurance (seems like the only one which offers a sensible cover for long trips is Travel Nomads) (ticked)
• breath in, breath out

So why would you sell a pram if you need a new one. Why would you sell a travel cot if you need a new one. The more I read; the more I think that getting the small amount of things is key of success; but also taking the kit fit for where you’re going will allow you to fully relax. Since we are going to places; where the risk of being consumed by mosquito alive is very likely; the mosquito nets are essentials. Sunday girls keep wiggling a lot. They need own cots for the sake of parents. Regular cots are crazy heavy and good for when you need to shove it in the boot car; rather than carry it around. After hours of Amazon time, I found some pop-up travel cots with mosquito net. They are light; the size of a woman’s bag and they comes in different sizes (up to 4 years old; and up to 2 years old). I can actually fit it the bigger one; so if an older Sunday Girl complains; I’ll be happy to swap beds.

I have double pram aka tank; a light pram which takes no space; but requires 2 hands and strength of a marvel hero to push it; and a single-falling-apart pram, which despite being still incredible, it has one huge disadvantage. Tiny front wheels, and despite its big spirit; it may fail us the moment we go seriously off-road. Hence now I’m eyeing sports / running prams; hoping to buy and test one very soon. One may say why not taking sling or baby carrier. Baby (or actually toddler carrier) takes most of suitcase / backpack and prevents you from wearing a luggage (assuming you’re a backpacker). Both slings and baby carriers has made us feel like zombies after each hiking holidays; so overall – they are great; but considering daily usage; prams are even greater.