Road Trip!

 Tomorrow bright and early we leave for our vacation to see my family in North Eastern Ohio. Boy I am not excited about being in the truck for 12+hours sitting in the back between two toddlers who probably won't be amused about this for long. I am looking forward to seeing my family once again. Only a small handful have met Mister and have only seen Ladybug once when she was 7 months old. It has been over two years since we have ventured up there so it was due for the trip.
 Packing for an entire family makes you become a super organized person. I made lists of what all needed to go in what bag for each person and when it needed to be packed. For instance clothes are all packed (the kids are sleeping in their day clothes tomorrow actually) but things like pillows need to be packed first thing in the morning because we are using them now. The inside of the truck is packed but the outside in the bed will get packed tomorrow morning before we wake the kids. I had thought to pack it tonight but do you know how beyond pissed off I would be if that shit would have been stolen overnight?! Well it would be on the murderous level of pissed off-ness.
 Today my awesome Friend Meagen came over to check out the house as she will be coming to let the puppies out three times a day and play with them and clean Bobby's nasty litter box. In exchange for her services I agreed to bake her some of my banana bread though I think she meant like a loaf not the four I made for her and her family to enjoy, two with walnuts and two without. Trust me when I say that this banana bread is so good that one loaf isn't enough and she has a larger size family so she needs more! She is amazingly awesome to be doing this for only banana bread when this is her job with a company that normally I would have to pay like $900!! So in any way I can repay her in food I am all for it!! Thank you Meagen!!!
 We installed the carseats all nice and secure in the truck. We flipped Ladybug back around to rear facing for the trip, it is safer and The Marine and I feel much more comfortable traveling such a long way with her as safe as possible. Mister remains rear facing as usual. Surprisingly Ladybug enjoyed being turned around when we put her in to get her adjusted! She has enough leg room and she said it was comfy with her legs crossed. I also showed her that she could put them up against the seat back or down around her carseat if she wanted. If she gets cramped we can always take a break to stretch out, we had planned on doing this anyway. IF anybody wonders about this she actually likes her legs crossed better than dangling down, she has complained before how she doesn't like the "biting" feeling in her feet...which I assume is her feet falling asleep. She is 33lbs and the rear facing limit is 35lbs so we are just squeeking by on that! Plus ya know what it is easier to sleep when rear facing like that. No necks hurting cause you were all slumped over and bobbing all over with every bump, nope just close your eyes and relax!!
 We bought some new special things for the trip at the store over the weekend. Some art stuff like peel and stick foam stuff. New coloring books, bubbles, and things hand held computer thing that I have never seen before but it has some good games and music things on it. Those combined with me, naps, eating in places, and more naps I think we will survive the trip just fine....I hope!! If you are my facebook friend you know I am very against having a dvd player or tv in the car. That actually sparked a huge debate the other day. I do not agree with the over use of tv in general and so having a tv in the car is totally outrageous to me actually. I can see how cross country trips it would be probably useful, or single moms who take super long trips with the baby alone, but simple around town trips or hop into the store real quick turn the tv on is just insanity and stupid. It will not happen in my family because that is how we choose to do things in our family. The world is too dependant on tv and other electronic things to begin with.. we all survived trips as children without tv and we are all alive today.(I know I normally hate that argument that we did it and we are fine, but only when it rearguards to safety issues like carseats....)
 So tomorrow bright and early...Ohio here we come!!