As vacation looms in the distance, I have begun to think that I had a major lapse in judgment when I convinced Tom that a 12 hour drive to the beach would be totally doable. 12 hours. In a car. With three children under ten. And then we have to drive back.
Seriously, what was I thinking?
In order to continue sleeping at night, I needed to begin formulating a plan.
My first step will be to go to the library and check out 20 DVDs the kids have never seen before. Then I will check out some audio books of the Magic Treehouse series, which kind of get under my skin, but the kids find fascinating.
I will load the phones with free apps of every kind.
But, inevitably, all this media will become boring.
So part two of my plan is to bring out one new entertaining thing every hour of the drive. Each hour I will unveil some thing they can fiddle with for at least fifteen minutes.
This seemed like a really great plan until I did a quick calculation of everything in my cart at Target, and I had a small heart attack. So part 2B of my plan was a challenge myself to find one thing to entertain three children for a twelve hour drive, both ways, for under $100. (That’s 24 things, if you’re counting.)
I am proud to announce my victory.
