As we drive on our road trip I am remembering when my sister and I were kids on a road trip-for entertainment my sister and I used to look for different colored cars or see if we could get a passing car to notice us pretending to pick our noses at them. Once-a guy did a fake pick back at us and his wife looked horrified-that was the best! We sometimes had coloring books-boooring! Then there were the occassions that an all out brawl in the backseat would ensue and my Mom would have to search for a Kleenex because I just took an elbow to the nose and I was bleeding everywhere!
Our kids are watching DVD's in the back and Kadence has a Dora handheld video game and a gameboy with her. Last night she was riding with Grandma and Gramps with the DVD player so I used my cell phone tv app and Charlie got to watch the Frosty the Snowman special on my phone. That still didn't make him happy, but at least I tried. I am blogging this from the car on a laptop while using my Mother inlaws plug in station that is in my car cigarette lighter.
I recently read an e-mail that talked about how easy kids have it now-a-days with technology and it talked about how when we were kids we had to get up to change tv channels, flip to try to find a suitable show, live without Cartoon/kid networks and wait until Saturday mornings to watch a cartoon.-So true! Also, if you wanted to watch a tape, sometimes the VCR would eat it and you would pull out 10 miles of ribbon from it! I loved reading that e-mail, I wish I would have kept it!
On a unrelated note, Kadence is having some serious Santa doubts and she is only 4! I warned her that she was about to get moved onto the naughty list and she said"No I am not, because I don't even think there is a naughty or a nice list! When I threatened to call the elves at the North Pole she said I couldn't because they don't even have phones there! The other morning she said "Mom, I don't even believe there is a naughty list, but if there is you are on it and not me!" Kadence had a horrendous fit at the McDonalds play area this week and some lady came up and said "Santa is watching!"-I was just thinking lookie here lady, she is not gonna fall for that one! Santa is going to be irate when he hears all of this nonsense!
