Popsugar Family Little Kids Mom Uses Maternity Leave to Travel the World With Family 1 Mom Is Using Maternity Leave to Travel the World With Her Family, and OMG #Goals December 10, 2017 by Victoria Messina First Published: November 10, 2017 View On One Page Photo 16 of 17 ADVERTISEMENT () Start Slideshow I thought I should say HI to all our new followers and bring you up to date on our family. Especially if you read the story in The Independent today! We are a family of four, I’m Karen and hubby Shaun is @travelmaddad ... We have two kids, Esmé aged 3 and Quinn is 4.5months old. When we had Esmé, ‘we used my maternity leave to travel around the world and we’ve done exactly the same with our son Quinn. I am a nurse in the UK and I am very lucky to be allowed to take a year off work. It’s not all paid but quite a lot of it is!... We rented our house out when Quinn was 9 weeks old and sold all of our belongings to make it happen on my maternity leave. This time is different, especially with 3 old Esmé... let’s just say we have our hands full with all her energy! When we left home, we travelled from Calgary to Vancouver in Canada and road tripped the entire west coast of the USA. We’ve since been exploring Central America and arrived in El Salvador this morning. So as you can see we’ve come a long way from when I had Esmé... Here we share all our stories. The good, the bad and the ugly. We like to keep it real and not sugar coat full time travel with two kids... it is amazing and I wouldn’t change it for the world... But.. we have bad days too of messed up travel schedules, missed buses, lost luggage, crazy toddler tantys and a sick baby in the back arse of no where... It’s totally worth it for the endless family time we have together and as a second time new Mum, I’m very grateful to have @travelmaddad around every day. We are not rich. Like I mentioned I’m a nurse and my hubby is a builder. I like to think we are savvy travellers. First time around we did it all out of our own pocket. This time is a little different since we have a successful blog, many hotels like us to write a review for them. That is more than we could ever have dreamed of. We semi have the potential to make this our little business and that’s genuinely because of this engaged audience. None of this would be possible without having interested followers, so thanks so much from me to you for following our journey. I hope we can inspire you to travel deeper with your kids💜✈️🌎 A post shared by TRAVEL MAD MUM (@travelmadmum) on Nov 3, 2017 at 1:31pm PDT Share This Link Copy ← Use Arrow Keys → 16 Previous Next Start Slideshow Little KidsTravelMaternity LeaveMotherhood