Convoy of One
The Madster and I are off on our Girls Only Road Trip tomorrow. Here are the things that I’m currently obsessing over:
1. Bathroom breaks. The drive is five hours and chances are I’m going to have to use a bathroom somewhere along the way. When we make this trip as a family, Gerald and I take turns going, that way we don’t have to get the baby out of car. She’s fine riding in her car seat UNTIL she gets out and has to get back in. Then, we have what you might call a Full Scale Shit Loss. So, I’m trying to figure out how to manage the crisis. My plan is to stop halfway at a real restaurant. Then, we can have lunch and spend some time out of the car. Bathroom breaks and diaper changes included. Otherwise, I’m going to have to learn to pee in a Snapple bottle at 75mph.
2. Keeping Maddie Alive and Grandparents’ Furnishings Unbroken - Non-child-proofed home. Need I say more? I think I’m going to take her play yard (aka: The Baby Jail) with us. Seems like it would be less grief in the long run.
3. Being the Sole Caregiver for Five Full Days and Nights - GAH!
My husband is currently in Nashville for a business meeting for four days and nights, and I am being the sole caregiver. Also, I was a single mom with my first from when she was 2 until 4. It royally sucks ASS. Because raising kids is intended to be a tag-team event.
Good luck! Your bathroom break plan sounds like a winner (so does packing the play yard thingy). And after this trip, Gerald owes you BIG. I haven’t figured out what my husband is going to have to do for me when he gets back after 7 days of being gone. Hmmm…….
As the sole caregiver 90% of the time, I feel your pain. I’m eager to hear how your big adventure goes, though. Good luck!!
I hope that Maddie will be an angel child and you’ll have a great time! Enjoy!
Have a great trip!
This will totally reinforce your womanhood. ROAR!
Also - full scale shit loss? AWESOME!
Oh girl. I’m hoping you have lots of good music (and perhaps some earplugs?).
When we took Zoe on a long car trip (to GO CAMPING. That’s right, my medal for that one is around here somewhere…..), we stopped for lunch half-way through and then let her run around for 45 minutes waiting for the poop that comes like clockwork after lunch. It never came so we put her back in the carseat, pulled onto the freeway and 2 minutes later heard the telltale grunting coming from the backseat. ARG.