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Preparing for Your Trip with Lists
When traveling with children, make two lists of everything you need to take for your children, as well as, yourself and your spouse. Depending on how long you will be staying at your destination, you should mark...
Baby Wipes vs. Handi Wipes
Instead of buying handi wipes to have one more thing in the car for eating out during drive thru’s with the kids, I used baby wipes. They contain allot more washing power and last for bigger mess-ups. Bonus: Re-wash them at home, hang to dry...
Give a Gift a Day When Traveling
If you are traveling by car with your children, wrap several small gifts, one per day per child. These can be purchased very reasonably at any dollar store, and should be activity oriented. Let each child unwrap their gift of the day early in the...
Surprise Toys for Trips
When going on a long trip I pack a bag full of stuff I have collected. Little things that the kids haven’t seen before – to keep them entertained while we are driving! If I know we are going, I start looking at thrift stores, and now they...
Keeping the Peace While Traveling
My family just drove to Utah and back for the holidays with our 5 children. I found that by sitting the kids that got along the best next to each other, as well as having the oldest one near the three year old to help out, really helped make the drive...
Car Traveling with Kids
When my kids were little I found it very hard to keep them entertained in the car on vacations. So I made up bingo cards with things that we normally see on the way. Like different color cars, traffic lights of all three colors, cows, horses and such....
Bring Bubbles when Traveling
When traveling by vehicle for any long period of time – make sure you pack bubbles! You can hold the bubble wand (or better yet let a passenger do this) up to the air/heat vent and it will blow the bubbles straight to the backseat where happy...
