Spring Break...3 kids, 1 husband, and the dog

When many people go on Spring Break, they go to exciting places like Disney, the Beach, or Ski Resorts...not us!  Because we live a good distance from our family, we use our school breaks to visit family. Don't get me wrong, a week long adventure out in the wilds would be grand, but when they say half the adventure is getting there, they are not wrong. My older two children (boy 13 and girl 12) spend most of the trip breathing on each other, pushing, complaining, and the like; the dog has extreme anxiety traveling so he is whining and roaming around inside the SUV; the 2 year old is trying to steal cell phones and keeps saying "home....ok?"; and my husband and I are running interference, pulling our hair out, and typically raising our voices telling them to just stop looking and breathing haha.

We are currently headed to Texas to see my parents...272 miles of glorious adventure!

 The second part of our adventure are the bridges.  Thanks to the movie Ghost Dad starring Bill Cosby way back when, I am deathly afraid of bridges...to the point I roll down my windows whenever I am on a bridge.  Well, last night I though it would be a great idea to watch In an Instant...an hour long show on television about freak accidents and the stories of the survivors.  The show last night involved the Mississippi River Bridge in Minneapolis that just crumbled into the Mississippi River in 2007.  My husband watched it with me.  I was mortified!  As we just crossed the Mississippi River bridge in Vicksburg, my husband must have been too, as he opened the sun roof and rolled down windows.

By they way do not tell children with active imaginations why we were doing what we were doing...it does not turn out well...by the way, there is an active fault line in the river at Vicksburg, if you wanted to know...I did not care to hear this.

Needless to say, we survived the first major bridge on our trip...now....where did I put that Benadryl??