When I was working at the local gas station during high school, I’d often browse the map books during slow afternoons. I’d trace the red and blue lines wiggling across the page, murmur the names besides dots big and small, and imagine heading down the highway to one of those places. Today, my husband and […]
5 Favourite Ways to Keep Children Busy on Road Trips #5Faves Vol. 46
Over the past six years, as we’ve driven back and forth between BC and Alberta, I’ve tried many different things to keep the girls busy on the road. Being confined to a car seat isn’t much fun for children. Yet I’ve found that often, it’s the simplest things that keep them busiest the longest. Here […]
DIY Road Trip Notebooks for Kids 3-9
With family living in another provinces, we make a long road trip at least once a year. The girls have gotten used to this and are quite good in the vehicle, but I spend a lot of time planning how to keep them busy each trip. This Christmas, I came up with the idea of […]
Visiting the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta
Lily is a big dinosaur fan. She’s got dinosaur movies, dinosaur books, a dinosaur puzzle. She talks of someday being an paleontologist. For years, I’ve been thinking about taking her to the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta. This summer, I finally did that. My sister-in-law, brother-in-law and two nieces day-tripped with us to the Royal […]
5 Favourites Road Trip Memories #5Faves Vol. 35
The girls and I spent part of July driving to Alberta and back again. While there, we visited with family, attended a wedding and took the chance to explore history in Drumhellar and Rocky Mountain House. For this week’s #5Faves linky, I thought I’d share some of my favourite road trip memories. Road Trip Memories […]
5 Favourite Country Road Trip Songs #5Faves Vol.
Today I’m piling the girls into the van to drive across BC for a wedding in Calgary on the weekend. I’ve spent the last two weeks making lists of things to pack, watching for their favourite snacks to go on sale at the grocery store, and wondering how Pearl will survive the drive. While I’m […]
Drive into Spring with Wet Weather Driving Wisdom!
A few months ago, as I was driving home with the girls, I told them the story of my first driving lesson. I don’t remember why I told that story, but Sunshine loved it and begged for more. As spring approaches, I don’t mind reminiscing about those stories—and what I learned from them about wet […]
Home, Sweet, Home
After an 18-hour day on the road yesterday, we are home again from our two-week holiday in Alberta. It’s nice use my own computer (faster internet!) and sleep in my own bed, though I also need to put away a few stacks of laundry and get some groceries and figure out what else needs to […]
Just Stop and Ask Directions
I’m not good with directions. Well, that’s not quite true. If the directions are absolutely clear and minutely step-by-step, then I do okay. The problem is that I worry about going new places and then I start to second-guess my directions. Then I panic and make a wrong turn and get lost and have to […]
