They work! The road trip boxes work! The children are colouring and doing math and playing car bingo and not watching movies! Woo freakin’ hoo! Mostly I’m just excited that the investment is showing some return.

Although, I put pay dough in the boxes. I know, I know, but it was just sitting there at home and someone on the interwebs (clearly a better parent than I) had this picture of children and play dough in the car. After the first day of being asked 83 times if we could play with the play dough I gave in… and told them they could play with it when we got to the farm. There is no way that stuff is coming out in the van. I mean, I can barely handle it at home, under close supervision, with plastic mats, and preferably a man to man defence strategy. Seriously. What was I thinking?

But then this happened.

And I’m so very glad I brought the play dough.