If there is one major difference between how I travel now that I’m a mom compared to how I used to travel, it’s how absolutely critical it is to be organized.  Like, imperative to my sanity critical. For some reason, I’d never tried packing cubes before we took our baby to Seattle in August.  Since that trip, I’m happy to report that I’ll never travel without packing cubes again, and that the way I pack is profoundly changed for the better.