Travelling with a child, a baby and three months worth of "stuff"

Leaving the south, we headed to the opposite end of the country — almost as far as we could go. Our travel day went something like this:

7am Get up, entertain Loïc.
8am Get Declan up. Eat breakfast, do a final cleaning.
9am Check out, load car — 8 pieces of luggage ranging from small to very large, one stroller, one baby, one 4-year-old.
10am Hit the road.
1pm Arrive in Montpellier with no clue how to get to the train station.
1:30pm Arrive at train station, return rented car, get luggage cart, load luggage cart, clean up mess from 3-hour car ride with children.
1:55pm Get luggage cart on elevator to get to other platform; run with cart to train; load luggage, kids, stroller on train.
2pm Sigh as train pulls out and head for the bar car!
4pm Unload all stuff and children from train.
4-5pm An hour in Lyon train station.
5pm Repeat luggage-loading scenario.
5:02pm Repeat bar car scenario.
9:25pm Arrive in Nantes; repeat luggage unloading; find taxi; load luggage etc.; get to hotel; unload luggage; go up to first floor (second to North Americans) in 3 or 4 trips due to small size of elevator.
10pm Be pleasantly surprised at the size of the room, get children to bed, be very grateful for half bottle of wine held back and collapse.