I’m in the midst of preparing for our trip next week and the house is starting to look a bit like the Container Store ran into a Children’s Place and exploded. The dining room is turning into Central Control, and I’ve got stacks and stacks of projects started. I’ve found the plastic tub that fits EXACTLY between the girls’ seats and the seat in front of them, and have begun filling these tubs with snack food, first aid kits, and more. I have zip-loc bags labeled “Chargers” to collect our large handful of cell phone, iPod, and camera chargers; zip-loc bags labeled “car chargers” for almost the same thing; and notebooks with my master plan written out in twelve easy-to-read pages.

And then there’s my laminator.

I hit Mom’s Minivan and printed off the road-trip bingo cards there. Not content with paper cards, I’ve laminated each one, and cut it into a perfect little square with my large paper-cutter. I’m currently trying to solve the how-to-mark-them dilemma; I’m afraid a dry-erase marker in Cora’s hand is simply begging to get indelible marker all over the car seat, and I don’t think pennies will stay put on her sliding card. Right now, I’m experimenting with Container Store’s Post-It tape – rip off a piece of colored tape, and it acts like a post-it note, usable over and over.

I’ll let you know how it goes.

But my piece-de-resistance with the laminating machine is the map. I’ve printed (and when I say “I” I mean I begged my husband to do this in nifty graphics with color) a map of our route, perfectly fitting from the bottom right corner of the paper and stretching to the top left corner of the paper. And I have several sheets of star stickers, so every time we stop the girls can fill in along the route the road we’ve traveled so far, and see how far we have yet to go. Then I’ll simply scrape them off and let them do the same thing (with already-purchased refill stickers) in reverse as we drive home.

Am I going too far?

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