Comments | nerowill: get me out of the car!

nerowill

get me out of the car!

Sep 24, 2007 21:42

We spent the weekend driving to OKC (8 hours with a hotel stop in the middle), spending 25 hours there, then turning around and coming home. The point of the visit was to see my husband's ailing grandmother, and I think it was a good thing to do. Little Girl was an amazing trooper and only spent a total of 10 minutes complaining on the entire car ( Read more... )

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javahound07 September 26 2007, 21:50:48 UTC

Yikes, Normally I like road trips but that sounds like a lot of driving squished into one weekend.

Bummer about still getting sick, the middle part is supposed to be the "easy" bit! Hope you feel better soon. :)

nerowill September 26 2007, 23:50:18 UTC

I've found that roadtrips lose a lot of their appeal when young children are added into the mix. :)

I'm hoping that the nausea situation is improving--although I still feel miserably sick every evening, I'm now only throwing up about every OTHER day. Got to be thankful for the little things I guess... ;)

javahound07 September 27 2007, 01:56:44 UTC

I was afraid of that! We'd love to start going on road trips again but we're trying to figure out when and what age would be best... Or if like all things regarding kids each age group has it's plus and minuses.

Well that sounds like some improvement. :/

nerowill September 28 2007, 01:29:29 UTC

We drove across Spain and back when she was 4 months old. It went well for the first three days, then on the last day she wouldn't stop crying as long as the car was moving. It was one of the longest days of my life...

When I was a kid, my parents would take my two brothers and me on a two hour trip every year to see my aunt, and every year for many years running my father would have to pull over by the side of the interstate somewhere in the middle and give us a disciplinary lecture. We were not a good bunch of travel kids I guess. Maybe it's all kid-dependent and yours could be great?

javahound07 September 28 2007, 23:15:33 UTC

I bet that was the longest day, I've had to listen to my son cry for only half an hour during a car ride - torture. I hope the rest of the trip was good.

Oh no, classic "if I have to stop this car...". I was pretty good {I think} on family road trips but then I didn't have a sibling partner in crime.... :)
I hope they'll catch the feeling of the open road and the wonder of new places to see.

nerowill September 30 2007, 02:36:30 UTC

Apparently having three kids in the backseat together for more than 15 minutes was an invitation to start the "he's touching me" variety of arguments that parents enjoy so much...

I'd start out by seeing if you can spark their interest in new places less than an hour away at first. :)

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