In less than three months we've made seven long road trips- "long" being between four and six hours. I know. It's not THAT long. Six hours is only six hours. We're not THAT far away. It's just that even if you like traveling, and you LOVE seeing your family, six-ish hours on the road is its own kind of exhausting. Parenting kids that are buckled in to car seats is a whole 'nother game. Keeping the calm when no one has slept as much as they should or at the right time in three days borders on a circus act. Trying to eat healthy- even while compromising my usual standards- out of a bag and a cooler, WITHOUT covering the car in seed butter or hard boiled egg, is work. It's totally doable, it's just a tiny bit sad that my kids know exactly what I'm going to buy every time we stop at a grocery store to pick up "car lunch". And that sometimes dinner is fast food and other times it gets forgotten until we pass them handfu
The ramblings of a woman, wife, mother, artist, and Christ follower.