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Dear Jodi (of the &Joe variety)
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I farking love you.
Seriously.
LOVE your response in my trip post. Love it.
Kill all my demons and my angels might die too. -Tennessee Williams
You take my ovaries, I take your yarns.
You take my ovaries, I take your yarns.
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Re: Dear Jodi (of the &Joe variety)
Being a buttinkly. Am I the only one who's seeing the Vacation scene of Clark saying "we're going to have SO MUCH FUN, we'll be whistling zip a de do da out our azzholess!!"
I'm calling BS on Rides. An entire car trip spent gayly laughing when the kids weren't sleeping? That is the biggest, heaping, stinking pile of dung I've read on here in a long time.
Christmas 2011
Door to door time: 24 hours
Kids asleep: 12 hours-ish
Time I wished I was anywhere but in the car: 45minutes-ish
Time laughing/talking/giggling/carrying-on: 9 hours-ish
Time staring out the window in relative silence: 2 hours-ish
Let's put it this way. We will be driving again this year, no thought at all of flying.
Christmas 2011
So our DVD player broke awhile ago, and I prefer to spend money on myself, or clothes for the kids. We've done several road trips w/out it, and it wasn't so bad.
But.
It's the tone of the responses about the lack of DVD player. And really, the posters who said it probably know that. Or they are completely non-self aware.
If I'm being honest, though, I prefer the DVD player. Why? Because I like to read and not have to entertain children in a small space while on a road trip. Selfish, ftw.
Oh and b/c I'm too lazy to post in two posts - you have an iPad right? Load it up with games and let him play them every so often as a treat for not whining or something.
Gotta say, we just got back from an 18 hour trip to GA with all three kids (my stepkids who are 8 and 9 and my toddler who is 17 months). 16 hours there and 18 hours back (because on the way back we were starting off from a place farther away).
We didn't have our DVD player with us because I forgot it sitting on the counter when we walked out the door and by the time we realized it it was too late to go back.
This is how our trip went: Left house at 6pm, drove 1 hour to get stepkids from their mom's house (got there at 7p). Took all kids to eat.
8pm: on the road again.
8-10pm: kids laughing, talking, playing their nintendo DS games, tickling the baby, etc.
10pm: GOLDEN SILENCE, all kids fell asleep.
10pm-7am: Kids sleeping, DH and I switching between sleeping/driving whenever we had to stop for gas.
7am: Kids awake, more talking, laughing, reading books, tickling of baby, etc.
8ish am: stop for breakfast.
noon ish: Pull in at family's house, a little tired, needing a shower, but generally happy.
On the way back:
Hit the road at 2pm.
2pm-6pm: Kids awake, more talking, laughing, reading books, tickling of baby, etc.
6pm: Dinner
6:30pm-9pm: Kids awake, more talking, laughing, reading books, tickling of baby, etc.
9pm: Passed out silence.
9pm to 6am ish: Kids sleeping, DH and I switching between sleeping/driving whenever we had to stop for gas
6am: Kids awake, more talking, laughing, reading books, tickling of baby, etc.
7am: stop for breakfast
8am, roll in at kids' mom's house to drop them off. 9:00 HOME.
It was a beautiful trip and no DVD player required.
E - that was my issue.
We drove to Outer Banks and back - 12+ hours each way. Kids awake for the bulk of those 12 hours. Watched one movie on the way down - one movie on the way home. And not silently, I might add. So that means 9+ hours of non-TV time each way. And they did awesome. Amazingly awesome. I'm quite sure we all would have been fine without that one movie on the way there/back. I'm also quite sure I will never test it to find out - - WHY BOTHER!!!!!!!
And Bubs -- smooches! I'm sure you will all do fine and W might even surprise you and be on his best behavior. I was totally pleasantly surprised by J&C both times we made that trip. (We did it in 2008 as well - so Cam was 2 and Joey was 3.5 and the ride home was 18 hours d/t traffic and they both did absolutely fine!).
And if he's not, plug in a movie darn it! I was going to suggest Rio, but that's because we bought that one right before leaving this time and the kids LOVED it. They liked the music in the beginning (before you hit play) the most. You know, the music that feels like nails on a chalkboard after hearing it for, oh, about 30 seconds!
Christmas 2011
But E, I don't want to share my iPad!!
LOL
Go ahead and call me bad mommeh, but the thought of entertaining my kid for 9 straight hours in the car makes me want to stab something in my ear. I'm looking forward to uninterrupted knitting and Angry Birds time.
You take my ovaries, I take your yarns.
This is totally it.
He would talk the entire trip solid if we let him. No problem at all.
You take my ovaries, I take your yarns.