Writer's Workshop: A Long Drive

*Today I am participating in Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop by answering the prompt: 4.) A long drive…

My kids travel well in the car. My husband will drive several hours without a complaint. Me?–I hate long drives and start to lose it quickly if anything goes wrong. And something always goes wrong. Here are two videos from long family drives. I like to record the craziness, to legitimize my fall-outs.

April, 2009: We’re on another road trip to Florida; this time to Orlando to see our favorite mouse. The problem is, everyone has the same idea and traffic is ridiculous. If you follow me on Twitter, you would see that I’m not handling it too well either. The kids, they’re fine; it’s me who’s going crazy. So in an effort to get my mind off the fact that we have traveled five miles in one hour, I made a video.

But that wasn’t the first or only time that we acted a fool on a long ride. This happened right after Christmas 2008: This was supposed to be a simple road trip to Savannah; a mere 4 hours away from Atlanta. Our goal was to leave about 8:00 a.m, but since I was wiped out from Christmas, I didn’t even finish packing until about 10:00 a.m. We started loading the car about 11:00 a.m. and that was when our road trip comedy of errors began–our rental car was too small for our luggage. What do we do? Watch and see:

Yeah, I would think twice about taking any long drives with us!

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Stopping by from Mama Kat’s. I must live near you. I’m in the Atlanta area too and we go to Savannah a lot. I recognized that Jonesboro traffic (where you got off to go to Truett’s) because that is the area my husband works in.

I just have to say I LOVE YOUR FAMILY. You guys look like you have so much fun! Even when things go wrong you seem to have a good attitude. Your kids are absolutely adorable.
Peg´s last [type] ..Steppin Out of my comfort zone

Thanks Peg! My kids travel better than I do. We recently had a 10 hour delay at LAX and they were fine which I was melting down.

“I like to record the craziness, to legitimize my fall-outs.” LMBO…Too much!!!!

I think this family has a future in comedy. You all truly gave me a big chuckle, thanks.

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