When traveling with the kids we try and make it as easy as possible.  We don’t let them take a ton of stuff, but they each have a small backpack with books, paper, scissors, glue stick, tape, crayons, pencils and a few toys to keep them occupied on the road.  We also take their tag reader & books and the iPad.  They take turns using these rotating between the three of them.  For our latest road trip I also went ahead and stocked each of their backpacks with all their snacks.  So when it was time to have a snack I just told them to pick any snack they wanted out of their backpack.  And since they all have their own scissors there was no need for me to open the package for them either.  Boom.

At one point during our travel I looked back and Harper had taped all her snacks to the window beside her.  I totally cracked up.  She said, “It’s like one of those machines you buy snacks from.”  When it was time to have a snack she would just reach up and pull one down.  And so she invented the car vending machine…minus the money.  I like where her head is.

Happy Tuesday.