I am officially spent. Today included: doing tons of laundry, vacuuming out the car, packing for three days of camping (with a wedding included, so junky clothes plus super nice ones), prepping food for said camping trip, loading the car, cleaning up the house (I HATE coming home to it dirty), running to the library for car supplies, spreading new wood shavings in the recently cleaned chicken coop and corralling rebellious chickens into the coop. I had also planned to put these things on the chickens, but couldn't face punishing myself in that way at 6:30 tonight. Aren't they ridiculous? But the damn chickens keep pulling each other feathers out and injured our teenage chick in a really horrendous and dramatic way a few weeks ago.
Jack and Lu seemed to have a fabulous day free of my meddling. Let's hope I don't get major payback in the car tomorrow. While I'm thinking about roadtrips, I really love this High Road bag I bought for in between the kids. For trips I stock it full of books, games, snacks, etc. And the top is very firm so they can draw and play games on it. For normal usage, I keep it in the trunk loaded with necessaries like changes of clothes, napkins, snacks, first aid kit, sunscreen, etc. Kind of like a big kid diaper bag, minus the diapers. I feel super prepared when I need to use something out of it. No paid promo here, I just really like this bag.
Also, in keeping with the chore theme from yesterday, here is a great link with 43 chores that can be done by children under 7. I'm going to work on a list for over 7.
We'll be on the road at 6:00 sharp tomorrow morning. Jack and Lu have many tens of thousands of miles of road trips under their belts and we're all excited that tomorrow's drive is only 9 hours. Woo-hoo!
