People dread road trips. Not me. I love them! Some of my greatest memories when I was a child were from our 10-12 hour road trips. Unfortunately, we have a television…which helps and hurts. It helps the peace of the overall trip. It hurst the number of hours where the kids are making legitimate memories.
Speaking of….the two great memories of this road trip…
This is the time when Scout and Pippi had to get out and walk. This was Pippi’s second offense, and Scout’s first. They were both caught without their seat belts. When I caught them, I drove off the next exit, and drove down a dirt road 1/2 a mile. I let them out (it happened to be hot — VERY HOT), and let them walk and think about wearing their seat belts while they made their way back to the car. Some may think this is grim punishment. But when a mother drives for six hours (at that point) and asks for them to put on their seat belts too often…that mother has to really drill it home. (Clearly it didn’t work the first time where Pippi had to walk by herself for 100 yards.) The best part….Scout laughs his way through my punishments. He is such a great sport, and even put Pippi on his shoulders to take some of her load away. Scout is really awesome..and you better believe that those kids were perfect at wearing their seat belts the next 5 hours!
Our other good memory from this road trip — Dash, who pulled out his tooth a day ago, has compensated his teeny tiny gap with a lisp! We kept cracking up at how he was talking. Then he would yell “Ssssssstooopppp!” and we would laugh harder!
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