First long car trip.

This week we will take our first very long car trip as a family. Our youngest son is not a good traveler by any stretch of the imagination. He is just the type of kid who likes to be moving and doing things. Sitting in the car is his idea of slow torture. He isn’t quite to the age where you can hand him one of those fancy ipods and trust that he will be entertained for hours. My hope is that we can break the trip up into shorter trips and stop frequently. We have put off taking any long trips until now because we just knew that it would be more stress on us all than it would be worth. This particular trip is not optional so we are just going to do the best we can and hope it is somewhat enjoyable. Our older son started taking long car trips from birth and there was never an issue. We didn’t have to travel anywhere after our younger son was born and I think this might be contributing to his problems with traveling. Hindsight is always 20/20 isn’t it?