Month: June 2008

I gotta go. Now.

Amy’s bladder seems to go from empty to full in a millisecond. At home, the urgency is funny. In the car, it is even more comical as one parent tries to establish the amount of time we have to choose a stopping place while the other parent does time and distance studies in their head […]

underwear fairy

We stopped for the night in Columbia and decided to spend some time at Columbia’s version of Turkey Creek so that I could replace the clothing item that vanished somewhere between the laundry basket and the suitcase. Sarah thought shopping with me would be more fun than younger sibling duties at the cookie store. An […]

start time: late

Doug asked me what time he should wake me so that we could get on the road. I looked at him oddly since I didn’t think I needed an alarm to be ready to leave the house at 10 in the morning. Doug looked at me like I was using a language he didn’t speak. […]

road trip history lesson

Things my children will never experience during road trips: *Gaps between radio stations (I love you XM). *My father singing 50s gimmick songs (Tom Dooley, etc.) to keep himself awake. *Potty breaks behind trees on barren stretches of road. *Travel without music players and DVD players. *Traveling without seatbelts. *Sleeping in the back window. *Sleeping […]