Hannah Jeter on traveling with four kids: you need a lot of snacks

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Hannah and Derek Jeter have been married for seven years and are parents to four children: daughters Bella Rain, six, Story Grey, four, River Rose, 21 months, and son Kaius Green, two months. Although I now mainly root for the San Diego Padres, I grew up on Long Island and was raised a Yankees fan, going to games at the old stadium. As such, I followed all of the Derek Jeter gossip: Mariah, Minka, swag bags, and beyond. Middle school-aged me finds it heartwarming that The Captain has settled down with four kids.

At the end of July, the Jeter family hopped into their giant Jeep Grand Wagoneer and road-tripped from NYC to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY, which is generally around a four to four-and-a-half drive without stops. If you’re wondering why they didn’t just do that rich people thing and fly, there’s no direct route to Cooperstown. You have to fly into Albany and drive about 90 minutes. Also, it’s pretty obvious that Jeep sponsored their trip, haha. In an interview, Hannah spoke about the realities of traveling with young children and all that it entails.

Once Derek Jeter called it a career in 2014 after 20 seasons and five World Series rings, he wasted little time setting up a true home base with his wife of seven years, Hannah Jeter. Fast-forward to this summer, when they piled four children into their Jeep Grand Wagoneer for a road trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame festivities in Cooperstown, N.Y., and the couple can measure—in memories and mileage—how far they’ve come as a team.

“Just to clarify, it was her bright idea to bring all four of them,” Derek cracked, pointing to the 2015 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover model sitting next to him. “It was ambitious.”

But Hannah simply refused to leave their youngest, then-2-month-old Kaius Green, behind.

And yes, the four-and-a-half hour drive from New York City was “definitely chaos,” Hannah shared, with daughters Bella Rain, who’s since turned 6, and Story Grey, 4, in boosters and River Rose, 21 months, and her baby brother in respective car seats.

“We need a lot of room,” Hannah described the scene. “We need a big trunk. We need a good sound system, as Derek would say, to drown out the noise. You need a lot of snacks.”

[From EOnline]

I have no idea if a nanny was included in that adventure or not but I don’t envy anyone doing a road trip with four young kids, especially an infant. Every kid is different. Some children travel really well and others don’t. It has to be a mixed bag with four of them. Traveling with kids definitely changes as they get older, but snacks (and if I’m being cynically honest, tablets) are probably the one thing that make children of all ages happy. For us, it used to be a boob or bottle, then yogurt or applesauce, and now we’re solidly in pretzel and goldfish territory, which I’m hoping we’ll stay in for a while.

As I said, every kid is different. Most parents want to share the things that mean a lot to them. If the Jeter children can handle it or if Derek and Hannah had plans in place for when they misbehaved or got overstimulated, then I think it’s great that they were included in the Hall of Fame induction festivities. If you’re a baseball fan and you’ve never been to the HoF or Cooperstown area, it’s pretty awesome. I definitely recommend going in the fall when all of the farm festivities are also going on. Don’t forget to bring snacks!

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