The Barbers Return!
...But just for two weeks. Don't get too excited. Yes, thanks to some fortunate timing and the perks of my job, we were finally able to make our first return trip to the U.S. as a family! As part of a project I'm on at work, we semi-regularly schedule face-to-face meetings between the Post Falls and Hørsholm team members. These are four days of in-person collaborating, and this time, we were scheduled to meet in Post Falls. With some nudging from my end, we booked the meetings in Week 7. We can't really pull the kids out of school for more than a week to travel, but Week 7 happens to be their Winter Break, so the timing of the meetings actually allowed us to be gone for two weeks without much impact on the kids' education. And with the company paying for my plane ticket and rental car, the cost of our trip was reduced a little. Zac wasn't crazy about the idea of getting on an airplane, but after what can only be described as a mantrum (man+tantrum), he came around....