Murphy's Laws for Moms

As we continued eastward out of Spokane, the kids and I enjoyed the stunning beauty of Lake Coeur d'Alene as we traveled through North Idaho.  This is one place I wish we would have had the time to stop, and is a place we will definitely include in future adventures.  But, on this trip, we had to continue on. Day Two Journey  Unsure of exactly how far the kids and I would be able to travel, I didn't make any hotel reservations.  The plan had been to travel as far as Bozeman on this second day of our 5,100-mile journey.  We didn't quite make it that far.  The exhaustion of preparing for the journey and the multiple 30-minute minimum restroom stops made travel a bit slower than planned.  So, we pulled off the highway in Missoula, MT . Having never been to Montana before, I didn't know what to expect.  I found out I had essentially zero cell phone service and absolutely no data coverage.  So, looking up and booking hotels on my smartphon...

This was going to be an amazing idea!  My husband was deployed, we had very little cell reception due to our travels across more remote areas of the northern part of the U.S., and I wanted my road trip to be an educational opportunity for my young kids.  We were going to journal! Well, since my kids aren't quite to the writing stage yet (still just 3 and 5), journaling really meant that the kids were going to draw pictures and I would write what these pictures were.  Each day, the kids were given specific instructions to draw something that they saw or did that day.  How hard can this be?  Dad's going to love reading these journals when we send them to him in his care package! Then, I get this at the end of Day 1: 3yo Journal: Rocks with stripes 5yo Journal: Mommy & me watching the sunrise in Hawaii Maybe we did actually see rocks with stripes.  That could have been a possibility.  We were, after all, driving through forested mountai...