Road trips ......do those two words bring you excitement or dread? Mostly for my family and I it is excitement. However we never know where on the trip our neuro spicyness will pop and we have to be prepared. So for my husband and I this time I grabbed our old school CD binders and we played memory lane roulette - it was interesting to see how many of the same CDs we had from our younger years (we did not know each other in our teenage years).
The older son got the whole back seat to himself and had his laptop, phone, and headphones with access to games, videos and music. He also has a summer reading assignment that has to be completed and after some prodding finally used some of this dedicated time to almost finish it.
The younger son had his tablet, a sticker book with scenes to put the stickers on, a look and find book as well as the Leapfrog headphones from the previous post.
All was going well, but as we hit the 2 hours left to go mark there was a marked increase in the energy in the car - that can make for a very long 2 hours if it cannot be redirected. Thankfully at the same time a request for a bathroom stop was made and a rest stop appeared fairly shortly after. At which time the little one says I don't need to go, but I want to stretch my legs.
What a win! He is starting to identify when he needs things to bring him back to calm. So out we all got and thankfully it wasn't a super busy stop. He ran from one end of the rest stop to the other and then he still needed just a bit more, and he found a hill. Said hill was a great place to summersault down, run back up and do it all over again, about 3 times. He then says I think I'd like to walk back to the car now.
The rest of the trip was peaceful and enjoyable, just like the first half!
What is the other thing we make sure to have on any trip and I recommend to all my other traveling families out there? These wonderful Plastic portable storage caddy's, but you don't use them for them for storage. You use them for anything food related. You can easily load and pass around the vehicle. The keep all containers in up right positions. If you have little ones that you have to break food up for it keeps all the crumbs contained. Then they dump and rinse out super easy. They come on every color under the sun - though I highly recommend getting them in bright colors so they are quickly located in a vehicle that can be quickly over packed. Even by teenage eyes, who often struggle to find "it" and it is two inches from their left hand (if you know you know). I have linked these wonderful wonders below the pictures of the rest stuff fun. I also relinked the Leapfrog headphones.
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