BE PREPARED.

i’m not really one of those people who plans ahead well.  i’m kinda a procrastinator, but more a person who lives day-to-day and in what’s real and not really so much for things that i can’t predict or know where i’m going to be at by then.  needless to say, this makes me less than help when it comes to preparing for trips.  most of the booking/reserving/planning is done by my wonderfully organized hubby and i just go with the flow until the last minute when i throw everything i want for [specified amount of time] in a HUGE suitcase and haul it away.  you would think after driving back and forth between Texas and Ohio 14 times i would have my stuff together a little better 

Before hitting the road…

* Sadly, for so many years of my life one of the biggest things i have spent doing preparing for a trip was spending time in front of a computer.  burning CDs for road trips, piling up movies and games on laptops for kids, adjusting and readjusting my iPod playlist…  for one reason or another i’m always running up to the last minute before i shut down the machines and get in the car…

* Making sure everybody has everything.  being that i wait until the last possible second to pack, i always run across things in my packing that i think someone else might have forgotten.  so there’s a lot of, “does [family member] have socks and a jacket, in case it gets cold?  where is [family member's] toothbrush?  everyone has a pencil and a notebook, right?!?  JUST IN CASE!!!”

* Putting everything in the car, printing out boarding passes, setting the route on the laptop/iPad/iPhone and getting all the power adapters and cables strapped into place or in their places in bags.

* Petting the dog and cats one last time, telling them they are good boys and to be good!

* Rechecking every centimeter of the house (doors shut, locked, power off on various items, no animals shut in rooms) and making a mental picture of exactly how everything is when i leave so i know where it’ll be when i get back!

* Setting up my “station” in the car – somewhere that i can be comfy and still have access to everything since i’m always the gopher on long car rides.

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