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Own your own crazy.

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Have you heard the Kacey Musgraves song, “Biscuits“?  Its a fun little number and my favourite line is “Mend your own fences and own your own crazy.”

So, this is me, owning my crazy.

I want to create road trip binders for the kids, full of activities to keep them occupied on the road.  This is what is looks like after a few hours printing amazing things from other peoples “free downloads” and before I put it all together.

This is going to be awesome, right?!?!

In my head this is going to turn into three awesome binders with taped dividers for everything from maps to math problems.  Each kid will have a box/foot rest and they’ll have markers and scissors and glue and play dough and other amazing educational and fun stuff.  This will entertain the children for hours on end and they won’t ever want to watch a movie or play on an iPad.  Life is really pretty in my head.

Now, keep in mind that I have not even started packing the stuff we need, like underwear and toothbrushes, partly because I still have loads (yes, plural) of laundry to do.  The camping tubs are still in the garage.  And school ends this week so there are cupcakes to be baked, year-end teacher gifts to be arranged, a Kindergarten concert, an after school potluck picnic.  Oh, and Uncle Ashley is flying in from Sydney for a whirlwind weekend on Friday.

But I’m making pretty road trip binders.   I own my crazy.

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Let’s get this show on the road.

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I have been planning and talking about and starting and thinking about this blog for so long that even I was beginning to wonder if it would ever really happen.  The problem always seems to be where to begin?  I’m still not sure that I have the right answer to that question but I have decided that when to begin is now.  Because… wait for it… we’re going on a road trip!!!!  A big a**, two month, cross North America, in a minivan, road trip!  When you looked at me like I was mad, and I laughed and said that there would be a blog, well… this is the blog.  And so it begins.

T -14 days until the minivan heads off into the wild blue yonder.  We will be driving to Calgary, via Wisconsin, spending a few weeks in Cowtown with the folks, then heading back to TO with stops in Waterton, Yellowstone, and Rushmore.  If there is a diner or an unnaturally large roadside attraction along the way we hope to stop there as well.  As it stands, we’ll pull the tent out for stops of two nights or more.  Single nights will be spent in awesome, cheap, clean motels with pools and mini golf (these exist, right?).  We have plans to meet up with friends and if you are along our route – or want to join us for a bit – we would love to see you!

For now, I am assuming that if you are reading this, you already know and love us, so there won’t be much by way of introduction and explanation.  That may come.  I’m not really sure what form these posts will take, or what their focus will be.  Hopefully, that will come.  I will write about our adventures, how we make it happen: with a tent, with three young children, with Fragile X, with an accountant (kidding, Fragile X is no big deal, but seriously, that accountant, man… he’s a handful).  I may also write about other things.  For now, beginning seemed important.

Start a blog.  Check.

With love.  T.