Road Trip Rules. What’s your Top Ten?
Road trips.
That’s what this week’s Monday Listcle is all about. “A list about ten things ROAD.”
So here goes.
10. Kill.
9. How I never fly anywhere any more.
8. That said I do a lot of driving — with children. Tip number one.
Limit potty breaks to designated rest areas. Only leave interstate for gas and food.
The one thing that supersedes this is Mommy can leave the interstate anytime for coffee.
I do try to “hold it” with the kids till the next rest area. My sister could teeter in a bottle parked at rest area if her young kids were asleep and she didn’t want to wake them.
7. Let sleeping children SLEEP.
Never ever, wake a sleeping child on a road trip. EVER. Not even when you get to the hotel. Sleep in the car with them.
6. Talk radio.
Most probably a sign I’m aging. Music used to be enough to keep me alive and kicking. Now if I’m really sleepy or bored — I listen to people talk. The Oprah network on Sirrus has saved me.
5. Take children’s shoes off before they get in and hide them…
Nothing turns me into a bull staring at a red cape than getting to a rest area,
having a bladder set on BURST and a child unable to find a shoe to shuffle with me to bathroom.
4. Drive somewhere with your husband.
Without the children, we eat when we want. Yell with abandon at the Garmin lady when she keeps insisting we make a legal U Turn. And arrive at our destination still happy that we decided to leave home in the first place.
3. Order onion rings at drive-thrus.
No comfort food that your crazed-travelling-with-children self eats on a road trip has any calories. In fact, it enlarges your breasts and shrinks your rear.
2. Sometimes mommy needs Silence.
No Disney channel, no movies, all games must be on mute. No fighting. No talking.
No unnecessary breathing.
1. And most importantly, buy gas in Georgia and wine in Florida.
You’re taxed on the converse in each state.
What about you? Any road trip rules?
