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No question, I've left the garage door open more times than I can count! Usually I forget to close it after parking our stroller but once I drove away with it wide open - we really need to get one of those reminder lights but I haven't seen them at my local stores.

Also I'm sure I'm not the only one with dirty laundry all over my laundry room floor, 1/2 loads from sorting and the next load to be done... so happy I can close the door on that mess!

Inspiring post, makes me want to interview my own mother! I'm sure she has many great stories about her childhood and food...

As a long time festival (Winnipeg Folk Festival) goer it was my turn to put into practice all the tips I'd gathered over the years, plus I was pregnant at last years event so I had plenty of unsolicited advice ;) This year it was so much fun to introduce our 8 month old son to the friends and family at the festival.... I was amazed at how fantastic he was, random people kept approaching us about how happy and friendly he was!

1. I stuck to my guns about my partner and I volunteering - helping the community is a huge part for me, so we asked our crew coordinator to book us back to back shifts rather than overlapping. The goal was that one of us could always be available for dedicated baby care, which worked for all but 10 minutes over the 5 day event.

2. We had road tripped from Toronto to Winnipeg for this, my packing list started almost a month ahead of the trip since there wasn't going to be much option of going back for something. I may have over packed a little but not by much - and I'd rather have over packed than forgotten something.

3. I knew we were packing some make or break items; the sling for the fussies, the pea pod for naps/sleeping, our stroller (city select, which has a big underseat basket)' a family sized picnic blanket for crawling and we purchased the Peltor baby ear protection - which he didn't fight at all, he even fell asleep during the evening concerts. We tried everything new for him in our yard to familiarize him with this new stuff.

4. Next year we're planning on either a folding wagon (apparently they're sold at Costco as a garden wagon) or a bike trailer/stroller, as well as one of those pop up umbrella shade structures.

We're still dealing with trying to get back into our routines, and his self feeding isn't nearly as good as before, but those really are minor when we get to think back to his first festival and how amazing it was to watch him interact with the place and music we love. Oh and we have friends who camp with their little ones out there... now that's crazy talk! Thank heavens for hotels ;)