A New Start

Ok, it was one of my new years resolutions to 'blog' a little more!  I'm going to start with once a month and see if I can progress to fortnightly and weekly and stuff!
I have been thinking about what I enjoy most from other people's blogs and really it's not so much of what they did with their family that I dont know, or how their holiday was in a town I have never heard of...but really what I have enjoyed it find out tips and how to's 
So I am going to share with you little tidbits of helpful information of ways to make life easier or just more fun for you (probably more directed at you if you are a mum of reasonably young children...although not exclusively...I am sure there will be plenty of  fun things to read for everyone!

So it is April now, Good Friday is tomorrow, we were planning on going on a road trip for Easter, but apparently they are basically flooding where we need to head to (picking a a gear box...as you do!)  SO we are postponing the road trip till next weekend.  Great times.  So in preparation for this roadtrip I have been searching for ways to keep kids entertained while in the car.  We have 3 across the backseat, which seems to be a bit of a recipe for complaining, hitting, fighting etc....I know I used that excuse when we went on road trips as a kid! 
So, where to look...Pinterest!! First of all I found this website
http://www.momsminivan.com/toddlers.html
So I have decided to experiment with a lot of these ideas for this trip.  My kids seem to get carsick from reading...or at least they have heard of this and start complaining that they feel sick after a while and have each thrown up once while travelling, and I just dont really want to risk it!!  So we are trying to stay clear of too many looking down, reading/drawing activities.  But at the same time, I also get car sick and seem to have no energy for entertaining kids with too many games of I Spy etc!  SO we will see how the delicate balance goes... with the addition of audio books....ideally on the ipod, but I dont know if I can trust them not to touch it....so alternatively through the car stereo, but that means I have to listen to Thomas as well!
I'll try to do a follow up to let you know how it all goes and some recommendations of easy but effective entertainment options for traveling with kids!