36-Hour Austin Whirlwind

A few years ago, when I was working full-time and the girls were 3 and 4, a dad-friend of ours invited Andy, Phoebe, and Abby up north to his ski-house for some winter wonderlanding. Just dads and kids. No moms. I should've been offended, but I wasn't. Almost as soon as Andy told me about the invitation I started making a mental map of all of the ways …