Olé Olé Olé Olé... World Cup 2014

The eve before Hubby and I leave for Brazil to experience this hype called the World Cup. It's a bucket list thing for him... and I'm tagging along. I don't know much about football, teams or players, but I know enough not to call it 'soccer'...and that Spain has a cute goalie - go Casillas!

A million things running through my mind. One of which is... it would have been easier to just take the kids with us.

I'm mentally exhausted...will the kids be ok? Are their schedules sorted? Do they know where they need to be and when? Do they have what they need? Have I notified their schools and coaches of an alternate emergency contact? Will the business be ok? Have I trained Cat well enough? Is she responsible enough? What happens if something comes up that I haven't trained her on? Will the kids miss us? Will we miss them? Have I told my mum everything she needs to know - kids' training and game schedules, birthday parties, doctor's details, Medicare card, everyone's phone numbers, our itinerary...? Will she be ok looking after them or will they drive her to the looney bin? Or will I drive her to the looney bin with my 3-page handover document?

Maybe we should have just taken the kids with us....

With all this going on, I haven't been able to devote any mental space to planning our trip. Since we aren't just packing up and taking everyone with us this time around, we had to divide and conquer - I would look after the "Home" arrangements and Hubby would take care of the "Away" details. So I don't know what time our flights are, where we're staying, how we're getting from A to B, what money we have (or don't have), what games we're watching and what we're doing when we get there!

I'm an advocate for family travel and now I have an even stronger reason why - because it's so much easier to just take everyone with you!