This Thanksgiving brought our first long-haul car trip. A whopping 9 hours of driving (2.5 hours of stopping/eating/playing). To say we were nervous as we pushed off is an understatement. Here is what we learned this weekend:
- Leaving at 4 am just means the children will wake up earlier. And want to color in the dark.
- If you fail to bring a roll of paper towels and a plastic bag, one of the children will throw up.
- Old magazines are the best toy - especially if you're cool with the ripping and folding that will ensue.
- Upstate New York has no place decent to eat. No - it doesn't.
- You will go hoarse after the 78th round of Jingle Bells.
- You will not tire of your daughter taking pretend pictures of all the Christmas decorations (and she will take quite a few).
- And in the end, you will have a grand Thanksgiving, complete will all the trimmings. You will also learn just how hard it is to photograph 8 children.
