September 9, 2024 • 21 mins
What if the key to reducing family stress and strengthening your relationships was as simple as changing your holiday traditions?
Join us as I uncover how swapping material gifts for memorable travel experiences can transform your family dynamics. From feeling trapped in a spacious home to discovering the immense joy of family vacations, I share my personal journey of turning Christmas celebrations into unforgettable adventures.
Imagine the excitement on your children's faces as they unwrap the details of their next big trip instead of toys. Hear about our cherished moments, like the thrill of announcing a surprise cruise or the delight of exploring Universal Studios together.
In this episode, I also explore how selecting the right accommodations can make or break your family trip, ensuring that the focus remains on creating precious memories rather than stress. I delve into the broader impacts of travel on mental health, discussing how stepping out of familiar surroundings can provide much-needed perspective on life's everyday pressures.
Reflect with me on how travel has been a stress-reliever for our family, and consider how it might help you and yours.
Don't miss out on these insights that could inspire a happier, more connected family life.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You are listening to.
Travel is Cheaper than Divorce.
This podcast for all those whomay be struggling with their
spouse or their children and therelationship with them.
We help give you tips andtricks by using travel as the
means to be able to help yourrelationships with your family.
I will provide those tricks andother ways to help travel with
(00:29):
little or no cost.
So let's get into it.
Everybody has different familydynamics, but one thing is
common between all families,including mine, is family stress
, so much so that you might feelsuffocated and choked down,
(00:55):
choking, choking inside your ownhome.
I know you probably feel thatway.
I know nearly everybody feelsthat way.
I told you in the first episodea little bit about my family
(01:15):
and our journey and where we'reat now, but that is not to say
that we do not have familystress still At this point in my
life.
I have three teenagers at home.
Well, I used to have three.
I have three teenagers.
Now I have two teenagers athome, but just because the
oldest is 18 doesn't mean he'sstill not a teenager.
(01:37):
And and there can be realstress, real true stress that
goes on.
And it doesn't matter how bigyour house is or how small your
house is.
You see, this is something thatI had to deal with in my life,
(02:02):
and I feel that is a part of astory.
That that has been going on inmy whole life is that I felt
like the more I can provide youyou probably feel this way as
well the more I can provide formy children, the happier that
they'll be.
And so I've gradually as mostdo when they're working
(02:23):
gradually increased the squarefootage of my home.
That's good, I think that'sgood, but the feeling of
suffocation didn't go away untilI started to travel more.
I started to travel more.
(02:45):
You can be in a 1,000 squarefoot apartment or a 4,000 square
foot home.
If you feel suffocated in oneplace, you can be suffocated in
another.
That feeling never went awayfor the longest time.
I remember our first Christmastrip.
(03:08):
This is something that my wifeand I decided to do.
My wife actually was the onewho came to me two years before
I decided to implement it,because I resisted it for a
while, because that's not howChristmas is and that is to take
the money we normally spend onChristmas and funnel that money
(03:31):
to travel.
This is actually before I evendiscovered the system I spoke
about in the first episode.
So so I resisted there for awhile, until we were cleaning
out our playroom at the time andrealizing that the toys or
(03:59):
electronics or whatever that webought our kid six months ago
because this was the middle ofsummer at Christmas, were hardly
being played with, or some ofthem were literally broken
already.
Now that drives me, at least,insane.
Maybe it drives you insane too.
It drove me insane because themoney that I put down, the hard
(04:24):
work that I put in to get themoney to buy these toys it
doesn't matter and they brokethem or they don't use them
anymore.
What was the point?
So we were cleaning out thisroom and I was so upset and, as
(04:50):
a good wife would sometimes, shesays to I told you so, I told
you so, and from then on, wedecided to take christmas trips
instead of christmas presents.
The holidays are a really,really hard time around my
household.
Uh.
This is uh because my wife isestranged from her family and
there have been a lot ofdifficulties on my side of the
(05:10):
family too, and this makes itdifficult, and also because of
the pressure that it seems likethe system has pushing down on
us to say we have to do this,this, this and this for
Christmas, and it makes theholiday less about what it's
actually supposed to be aboutand more stressful than it needs
to be.
So I want to use that, I wantto tell you a story about that,
(05:36):
about Christmas, because that isalthough because that is an
area in people's lives I'venoticed or observed that there
is a lot of family stress around, a lot of family stress around
christmas.
I don't, we don't really feelthat way as much anymore.
(05:57):
I'm trying to emphasize as muchas I can I'm going to tell you
a story about this that traveldoes change a lot of things.
You're not suffocated.
It's really funny too, becauseyou go from your, let's say, a
2000 or 3000 square foot homeinto a 900 square foot hotel
room and you feel freer.
That's how I felt, and again,I'll tell you a little bit of
(06:22):
story about that in just amoment.
But let me tell you a storyabout one Christmas we had two
Christmases ago.
You got to understand that whenwe started doing this traveling
a lot more and traveling forChristmas and after I learned
(06:46):
the system that we taught Italked about in the first
episode, where you can travelfor little or no cost, that we
were able to do more and moreand more traveling.
Of course, at that point, onceI discovered how to do it,
there's hold this whole otherworld that my kids are excited
to almost anger that we won'ttell them where we're going on
(07:10):
our Christmas trip untilChristmas, so one year.
So let me set up the scene foryou.
I think it's important for youto feel this.
Under our Christmas tree everyChristmas there is a manila
envelope, standard manilaenvelope.
Inside the manila envelope areprinted pages on different
(07:31):
activities and different thingsand the destination where we're
going on our Christmas trip.
Now let me back up for a secondto say this Our Christmas trips
are rarely at Christmas.
We just call it a Christmastrip because that's our gift at
Christmas to our family.
Sometimes our trips are inApril the next year and in one
year because of the pandemic weactually had to push it all the
(07:51):
way back to like October of thenext year, which means then the
next Christmas trip or thereveal was only three months
away from our last trip and theyhad to wait quite a while.
But can't help the pandemicsometimes.
But that manila envelope wetape because we have teenagers
who like to try to sneak in.
You know is the mostanticipated gift underneath that
(08:11):
tree and literally the.
The manila envelope and thepapers inside probably cost me
less than five bucks, but thatis the most impactful envelope
and that's inside probably costme less than five bucks, but
that is the most impactfulenvelope and that's the most
impactful present under thattree.
Now, earlier I said I replacedthe presence, uh, with with the
trip and you're saying there'smore presence.
Yeah, I do actually put otherpresents under the tree that are
(08:34):
wrapped.
These presents all have to dowith the trip and they're
usually very cheap.
There's not nothing for them toplay with.
One year we took our kids toWashington DC and we gave them
3D puzzles of the Capitol, forexample.
But you see, that's the fun ofit.
That is the fun of it.
So I'm just trying to set ascene for you, because the fun
of it for my children is is theyget really, really upset and
(09:01):
they really want to know wherewe're going so bad.
I have never seen that kind ofanticipation about any other
present under the tree ever.
They love it.
It is so much fun for them.
Kind of, like I said, they getkind of angry because they won't
(09:22):
tell them where we're going.
Well, side note, my spouse hasa tendency to point out and it
is true, uh, she doesn't evenhave to point out, it is
actually true.
My children have said it too.
Is my kids always get me togive them clues and give them
clues and give them cluesbecause I so want to tell them.
As a parent, I'm anticipatingtelling them and so sometimes I
figure it out before they evenopen the gift.
(09:43):
But hopefully you're able tohold out better than I have been
able to.
But do you understand that theholiday season has been a
stressful, stressful time forall families because of the
whole?
I need to go out and shop.
That's a lot of it, guys.
I didn't anticipate in thisepisode talking about this
(10:06):
Christmas thing that we did, butit's just an example of a point
of family stress.
So, anyways, let me set thescene for you.
There's a scene.
So my kids are over the moonexcited Every 25th of December
to open that one envelope.
(10:27):
I mean, I have pictures, I havememories, I have videos of them
opening a manila envelope thatthey are most excited about, so
much so that my kids all standup together to open it together
and then they just fan out thepapers that are inside the one
year that we took our kids on acruise, and that's inside that
(10:48):
manila envelope, were papersabout the ship.
I had a picture of the you knowthe inside of the ship and I
circled the staterooms that wewere in and other things about
the ship and I circled the staterooms that we were in it and
other other things about theship itself, the activities, the
restaurants and so on, thedestinations and so forth.
Guys, these are tender memories, see.
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The thing is it's memories likethose that the stresses of life
don't really seem to matteranymore.
That's the power of it all.
So they open up this and Istill, even to this day.
Now this was years ago, exactlythe tail end of the pandemic, so
(11:34):
it must have been December of20, it might even been December
of 20.
It might even been December of21.
I could still hear mydaughter's voice.
She's my second child, she isnow 16.
I remember the scene perfectly.
In my living room we had thecamera on her, in fact, and we
(11:59):
still have that video and Ihaven't rewatched it.
It's in my head.
Rewatch it.
I'm rewatching it now and itbrings a bit of tears to my eyes
to realize that she opened thatenvelope.
And it may sound silly, I don'tknow, maybe it doesn't to you
(12:24):
you, she opened that envelopeand she screamed a cruise, like
it was like the happiest thing,because, you know, it's one of
those things when you have ateenage girl like I did, do
still, but did back then as welljust the way she is, this is
what.
This is one of the things Iknew she would want.
She was the one that we werethinking of when we came to this
(12:49):
trip and again, that may notmean a lot to you I guess it's
one of those things that are inthe moment, but you've got to
realize that how she felt couldbe felt miles away.
She was extremely happy couldbe felt miles away.
She was extremely happy At thatmoment, and other moments like
that, the stresses just melt.
It doesn't matter.
None of the rest of it matters.
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I've been giving my kidsChristmas gifts up to that point
for at that point probably 14to 15 years they have never
cared that much.
I have never heard that kind ofexcitement in their voice,
except for when they open thesemanila envelopes.
Travel can be stressful, though,if I were to be frank, if I
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were to be frank, but it's adifferent kind of stress.
It's not the destination that'sstressful, it's just getting
there that's stressful.
But there are many ways,frankly, to decrease that stress
.
First of all, as I alluded inthe first episode, staying in a
hotel that actually fits you,that is, not one that you feel
like your family is in danger,could help.
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One of the hotels we stayed atwhen we went to, we went to um,
this is our first.
I believe this was our firstChristmas trip.
This is what I started talkingabout before.
I wanted to set the scene foryou.
On the other thing, our veryfirst Christmas trip was to
Orlando.
We went to Universal Studios.
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Um, this wasn't our very firsttrip trip, but this is our first
Christmas trip.
This Christmas trip to Orlando,we stayed in a hotel that was
big enough to accommodate us andit was nice enough, with pools
and other things all around thatwe could enjoy.
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We could enjoy.
We didn't have to take thestress with us into that hotel
room.
To be very frank with you,though, all right, I want to
tell you one more memory in asecond on this trip.
My daughter would kill me, butyou don't know her name, so I
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guess it doesn't matter, right?
But uh, anyway, we weren't inthat hotel room a lot anyways,
but we were in a place where wefelt safe and the stress, the
stress, the normal stress youhave with kids, the normal
stress of life, just wasn'tthere, it didn't really come
with us.
Some of our great I'm justgoing to tell you the story
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because some of our great I gotmuch going to tell you the story
because some of our greatestmemories have happened on trips,
some of our funniest memories.
I'm going to tell you thisstory because it is the last
time I've heard my wife laughthat I mean, that was the first
time I've heard her laugh ashard as she did that she
(15:49):
literally couldn't breathe.
My wife has suffered withdepression most of her life and
so that was a big deal when we,as a family, hear her laugh like
that.
Anyway, so, being it was Orlando, and sometimes it rains and
there were some water rides andother things, we all had ponchos
(16:11):
.
We all had, uh, you know,ponchos to protect our clothing
from the rain, um, or the waterraids, or whatever.
Well, our, my youngest daughter, my youngest daughter, she had
a red poncho and we went on aride in Universal Studios where
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she lost her red poncho.
These are fairly nice ponchosthat we had and so on our way
out of the park we said to hershe needs to go to Lost and
Found and see if they found herponcho.
Now I don't to this day and westill don't know.
She needs to go to Lost andFound and see if they found her
poncho.
Now I don't to this day and westill don't know, because she
(16:54):
doesn't know what got in herhead that she said what she said
to that person at the Lost andFound.
Now I wasn't in the room at thetime.
This was communicated to me bymy wife afterwards, when she
could breathe again after shewas laughing so hard.
Once she could breathe againafter she was laughing so hard.
But we we and she was fairlyyoung at the time but we want,
we always try to teach our kidsto be able to talk to people and
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and do it themselves, sothey're not always relying on us
, and that's important, I think,for independence purposes.
But so she goes into the lostand found.
I'll only tell you this storybecause these are the kind of
memories you don't get whenyou're just sitting in your
house on different phones.
That's where the stress islying.
A lot of it is that there's nomemories.
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All your memories your kids aregoing to remember is how
stressed out you are, unlessyou're doing things like this.
So, anyways, she walks into thelost and found and she talks to
this gentleman into the lost andfound and she talks to this
gentleman at the lost and founddesk and she says in her voice
now you got to realize she's avery she's not very young, but
she's young enough.
So she has a voice like this.
(17:57):
I'm going to imitate her, butshe says so, she, this is her
exact words.
Hello, I've lost my tampon.
It's a red one.
It was so funny.
I don't know where she got theword tampon to this day.
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My wife busted and the guybehind the counter thought the
whole thing was a big old fatjoke.
But it wasn't.
She literally thought shedidn't know what that meant.
So funny, oh my gosh.
So it's memories like that Imean laughing like that, loving
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like that.
Those are the things that meltstress in a family.
So if you've traveled before, Iwant you to really think about
the stress that melted when youwere traveling.
Now, if you're like me or likeI was, and you weren't traveling
hardly at all, I want you tothink about the stresses that
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could be eliminated in your lifeby having memories like that
one or like others that I'vementioned.
I want you to know, like I know, that although stress never
runs away although when you getback to your house you may still
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have the to-dos and thestressors in your life, they
don't seem as big and strong.
Every time I return from a trip, I feel refreshed, like I can
finally battle the world.
So think about that, thinkabout the stresses in your life
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that may not even matter,because we do have stresses in
our life that really don'tmatter.
It puts things in perspective.
So can you think of stressors inyour life that you can put in
perspective, that you couldmaybe even fully eliminate if
you just got away and got out ofyour stuffy house?
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No matter how big, no matterhow small, it doesn't matter.
It matters what you feel inside.
That's how it has been for me.
So I want you to think aboutthat.
What stresses can be eliminated?
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Or, if you've traveled, whatstresses have been eliminated or
put in perspective as I'vetraveled?
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Thank you for listening.
You are listening to.
Travel is Cheaper than Divorce.
This podcast for all those whomay be struggling with their
spouse or their children and therelationship with them.
We help give you tips andtricks by using travel as the
means to be able to help yourrelationships with your family.
I will provide those tricks andother ways to help travel with
(00:29):
little or no cost.
So let's get into it.
Everybody has different familydynamics, but one thing is
common between all families,including mine, is family stress
, so much so that you might feelsuffocated and choked down,
(00:55):
choking, choking inside your ownhome.
I know you probably feel thatway.
I know nearly everybody feelsthat way.
I told you in the first episodea little bit about my family
(01:15):
and our journey and where we'reat now, but that is not to say
that we do not have familystress still At this point in my
life.
I have three teenagers at home.
Well, I used to have three.
I have three teenagers.
Now I have two teenagers athome, but just because the
oldest is 18 doesn't mean he'sstill not a teenager.
(01:37):
And and there can be realstress, real true stress that
goes on.
And it doesn't matter how bigyour house is or how small your
house is.
You see, this is something thatI had to deal with in my life,
(02:02):
and I feel that is a part of astory.
That that has been going on inmy whole life is that I felt
like the more I can provide youyou probably feel this way as
well the more I can provide formy children, the happier that
they'll be.
And so I've gradually as mostdo when they're working
(02:23):
gradually increased the squarefootage of my home.
That's good, I think that'sgood, but the feeling of
suffocation didn't go away untilI started to travel more.
I started to travel more.
(02:45):
You can be in a 1,000 squarefoot apartment or a 4,000 square
foot home.
If you feel suffocated in oneplace, you can be suffocated in
another.
That feeling never went awayfor the longest time.
I remember our first Christmastrip.
(03:08):
This is something that my wifeand I decided to do.
My wife actually was the onewho came to me two years before
I decided to implement it,because I resisted it for a
while, because that's not howChristmas is and that is to take
the money we normally spend onChristmas and funnel that money
(03:31):
to travel.
This is actually before I evendiscovered the system I spoke
about in the first episode.
So so I resisted there for awhile, until we were cleaning
out our playroom at the time andrealizing that the toys or
(03:59):
electronics or whatever that webought our kid six months ago
because this was the middle ofsummer at Christmas, were hardly
being played with, or some ofthem were literally broken
already.
Now that drives me, at least,insane.
Maybe it drives you insane too.
It drove me insane because themoney that I put down, the hard
(04:24):
work that I put in to get themoney to buy these toys it
doesn't matter and they brokethem or they don't use them
anymore.
What was the point?
So we were cleaning out thisroom and I was so upset and, as
(04:50):
a good wife would sometimes, shesays to I told you so, I told
you so, and from then on, wedecided to take christmas trips
instead of christmas presents.
The holidays are a really,really hard time around my
household.
Uh.
This is uh because my wife isestranged from her family and
there have been a lot ofdifficulties on my side of the
(05:10):
family too, and this makes itdifficult, and also because of
the pressure that it seems likethe system has pushing down on
us to say we have to do this,this, this and this for
Christmas, and it makes theholiday less about what it's
actually supposed to be aboutand more stressful than it needs
to be.
So I want to use that, I wantto tell you a story about that,
(05:36):
about Christmas, because that isalthough because that is an
area in people's lives I'venoticed or observed that there
is a lot of family stress around, a lot of family stress around
christmas.
I don't, we don't really feelthat way as much anymore.
(05:57):
I'm trying to emphasize as muchas I can I'm going to tell you
a story about this that traveldoes change a lot of things.
You're not suffocated.
It's really funny too, becauseyou go from your, let's say, a
2000 or 3000 square foot homeinto a 900 square foot hotel
room and you feel freer.
That's how I felt, and again,I'll tell you a little bit of
(06:22):
story about that in just amoment.
But let me tell you a storyabout one Christmas we had two
Christmases ago.
You got to understand that whenwe started doing this traveling
a lot more and traveling forChristmas and after I learned
(06:46):
the system that we taught Italked about in the first
episode, where you can travelfor little or no cost, that we
were able to do more and moreand more traveling.
Of course, at that point, onceI discovered how to do it,
there's hold this whole otherworld that my kids are excited
to almost anger that we won'ttell them where we're going on
(07:10):
our Christmas trip untilChristmas, so one year.
So let me set up the scene foryou.
I think it's important for youto feel this.
Under our Christmas tree everyChristmas there is a manila
envelope, standard manilaenvelope.
Inside the manila envelope areprinted pages on different
(07:31):
activities and different thingsand the destination where we're
going on our Christmas trip.
Now let me back up for a secondto say this Our Christmas trips
are rarely at Christmas.
We just call it a Christmastrip because that's our gift at
Christmas to our family.
Sometimes our trips are inApril the next year and in one
year because of the pandemic weactually had to push it all the
(07:51):
way back to like October of thenext year, which means then the
next Christmas trip or thereveal was only three months
away from our last trip and theyhad to wait quite a while.
But can't help the pandemicsometimes.
But that manila envelope wetape because we have teenagers
who like to try to sneak in.
You know is the mostanticipated gift underneath that
(08:11):
tree and literally the.
The manila envelope and thepapers inside probably cost me
less than five bucks, but thatis the most impactful envelope
and that's inside probably costme less than five bucks, but
that is the most impactfulenvelope and that's the most
impactful present under thattree.
Now, earlier I said I replacedthe presence, uh, with with the
trip and you're saying there'smore presence.
Yeah, I do actually put otherpresents under the tree that are
(08:34):
wrapped.
These presents all have to dowith the trip and they're
usually very cheap.
There's not nothing for them toplay with.
One year we took our kids toWashington DC and we gave them
3D puzzles of the Capitol, forexample.
But you see, that's the fun ofit.
That is the fun of it.
So I'm just trying to set ascene for you, because the fun
of it for my children is is theyget really, really upset and
(09:01):
they really want to know wherewe're going so bad.
I have never seen that kind ofanticipation about any other
present under the tree ever.
They love it.
It is so much fun for them.
Kind of, like I said, they getkind of angry because they won't
(09:22):
tell them where we're going.
Well, side note, my spouse hasa tendency to point out and it
is true, uh, she doesn't evenhave to point out, it is
actually true.
My children have said it too.
Is my kids always get me togive them clues and give them
clues and give them cluesbecause I so want to tell them.
As a parent, I'm anticipatingtelling them and so sometimes I
figure it out before they evenopen the gift.
(09:43):
But hopefully you're able tohold out better than I have been
able to.
But do you understand that theholiday season has been a
stressful, stressful time forall families because of the
whole?
I need to go out and shop.
That's a lot of it, guys.
I didn't anticipate in thisepisode talking about this
(10:06):
Christmas thing that we did, butit's just an example of a point
of family stress.
So, anyways, let me set thescene for you.
There's a scene.
So my kids are over the moonexcited Every 25th of December
to open that one envelope.
(10:27):
I mean, I have pictures, I havememories, I have videos of them
opening a manila envelope thatthey are most excited about, so
much so that my kids all standup together to open it together
and then they just fan out thepapers that are inside the one
year that we took our kids on acruise, and that's inside that
(10:48):
manila envelope, were papersabout the ship.
I had a picture of the you knowthe inside of the ship and I
circled the staterooms that wewere in and other things about
the ship and I circled the staterooms that we were in it and
other other things about theship itself, the activities, the
restaurants and so on, thedestinations and so forth.
Guys, these are tender memories, see.
(11:13):
The thing is it's memories likethose that the stresses of life
don't really seem to matteranymore.
That's the power of it all.
So they open up this and Istill, even to this day.
Now this was years ago, exactlythe tail end of the pandemic, so
(11:34):
it must have been December of20, it might even been December
of 20.
It might even been December of21.
I could still hear mydaughter's voice.
She's my second child, she isnow 16.
I remember the scene perfectly.
In my living room we had thecamera on her, in fact, and we
(11:59):
still have that video and Ihaven't rewatched it.
It's in my head.
Rewatch it.
I'm rewatching it now and itbrings a bit of tears to my eyes
to realize that she opened thatenvelope.
And it may sound silly, I don'tknow, maybe it doesn't to you
(12:24):
you, she opened that envelopeand she screamed a cruise, like
it was like the happiest thing,because, you know, it's one of
those things when you have ateenage girl like I did, do
still, but did back then as welljust the way she is, this is
what.
This is one of the things Iknew she would want.
She was the one that we werethinking of when we came to this
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trip and again, that may notmean a lot to you I guess it's
one of those things that are inthe moment, but you've got to
realize that how she felt couldbe felt miles away.
She was extremely happy couldbe felt miles away.
She was extremely happy At thatmoment, and other moments like
that, the stresses just melt.
It doesn't matter.
None of the rest of it matters.
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I've been giving my kidsChristmas gifts up to that point
for at that point probably 14to 15 years they have never
cared that much.
I have never heard that kind ofexcitement in their voice,
except for when they open thesemanila envelopes.
Travel can be stressful, though,if I were to be frank, if I
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were to be frank, but it's adifferent kind of stress.
It's not the destination that'sstressful, it's just getting
there that's stressful.
But there are many ways,frankly, to decrease that stress
.
First of all, as I alluded inthe first episode, staying in a
hotel that actually fits you,that is, not one that you feel
like your family is in danger,could help.
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One of the hotels we stayed atwhen we went to, we went to um,
this is our first.
I believe this was our firstChristmas trip.
This is what I started talkingabout before.
I wanted to set the scene foryou.
On the other thing, our veryfirst Christmas trip was to
Orlando.
We went to Universal Studios.
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Um, this wasn't our very firsttrip trip, but this is our first
Christmas trip.
This Christmas trip to Orlando,we stayed in a hotel that was
big enough to accommodate us andit was nice enough, with pools
and other things all around thatwe could enjoy.
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We could enjoy.
We didn't have to take thestress with us into that hotel
room.
To be very frank with you,though, all right, I want to
tell you one more memory in asecond on this trip.
My daughter would kill me, butyou don't know her name, so I
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guess it doesn't matter, right?
But uh, anyway, we weren't inthat hotel room a lot anyways,
but we were in a place where wefelt safe and the stress, the
stress, the normal stress youhave with kids, the normal
stress of life, just wasn'tthere, it didn't really come
with us.
Some of our great I'm justgoing to tell you the story
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because some of our great I gotmuch going to tell you the story
because some of our greatestmemories have happened on trips,
some of our funniest memories.
I'm going to tell you thisstory because it is the last
time I've heard my wife laughthat I mean, that was the first
time I've heard her laugh ashard as she did that she
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literally couldn't breathe.
My wife has suffered withdepression most of her life and
so that was a big deal when we,as a family, hear her laugh like
that.
Anyway, so, being it was Orlando, and sometimes it rains and
there were some water rides andother things, we all had ponchos
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.
We all had, uh, you know,ponchos to protect our clothing
from the rain, um, or the waterraids, or whatever.
Well, our, my youngest daughter, my youngest daughter, she had
a red poncho and we went on aride in Universal Studios where
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she lost her red poncho.
These are fairly nice ponchosthat we had and so on our way
out of the park we said to hershe needs to go to Lost and
Found and see if they found herponcho.
Now I don't to this day and westill don't know.
She needs to go to Lost andFound and see if they found her
poncho.
Now I don't to this day and westill don't know, because she
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doesn't know what got in herhead that she said what she said
to that person at the Lost andFound.
Now I wasn't in the room at thetime.
This was communicated to me bymy wife afterwards, when she
could breathe again after shewas laughing so hard.
Once she could breathe againafter she was laughing so hard.
But we we and she was fairlyyoung at the time but we want,
we always try to teach our kidsto be able to talk to people and
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and do it themselves, sothey're not always relying on us
, and that's important, I think,for independence purposes.
But so she goes into the lostand found.
I'll only tell you this storybecause these are the kind of
memories you don't get whenyou're just sitting in your
house on different phones.
That's where the stress islying.
A lot of it is that there's nomemories.
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All your memories your kids aregoing to remember is how
stressed out you are, unlessyou're doing things like this.
So, anyways, she walks into thelost and found and she talks to
this gentleman into the lost andfound and she talks to this
gentleman at the lost and founddesk and she says in her voice
now you got to realize she's avery she's not very young, but
she's young enough.
So she has a voice like this.
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I'm going to imitate her, butshe says so, she, this is her
exact words.
Hello, I've lost my tampon.
It's a red one.
It was so funny.
I don't know where she got theword tampon to this day.
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My wife busted and the guybehind the counter thought the
whole thing was a big old fatjoke.
But it wasn't.
She literally thought shedidn't know what that meant.
So funny, oh my gosh.
So it's memories like that Imean laughing like that, loving
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like that.
Those are the things that meltstress in a family.
So if you've traveled before, Iwant you to really think about
the stress that melted when youwere traveling.
Now, if you're like me or likeI was, and you weren't traveling
hardly at all, I want you tothink about the stresses that
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could be eliminated in your lifeby having memories like that
one or like others that I'vementioned.
I want you to know, like I know, that although stress never
runs away although when you getback to your house you may still
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have the to-dos and thestressors in your life, they
don't seem as big and strong.
Every time I return from a trip, I feel refreshed, like I can
finally battle the world.
So think about that, thinkabout the stresses in your life
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that may not even matter,because we do have stresses in
our life that really don'tmatter.
It puts things in perspective.
So can you think of stressors inyour life that you can put in
perspective, that you couldmaybe even fully eliminate if
you just got away and got out ofyour stuffy house?
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No matter how big, no matterhow small, it doesn't matter.
It matters what you feel inside.
That's how it has been for me.
So I want you to think aboutthat.
What stresses can be eliminated?
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Or, if you've traveled, whatstresses have been eliminated or
put in perspective as I'vetraveled?
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That is just my experience andmiles to travel in luxury for
little to no cost.
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