Sunday, July 09, 2006
Dramamine and the DVD
Oh yeah ... the house. We took a trip down there, and it is a good 7 hour drive, but we broke it up and stayed in that town where they Run for the Roses every year. We had discovered a few years prior to this trip that the Door Man gets carsick. And does he ever get sick....
So, I have started doping him up with Dramamine. You never know when he might light up, so he gets a dose when we start off for someplace, and a dose for when we head on home.
I want to know who is responsible for not putting this out in some parent newsletter somewhere: Dramamine makes kids SLEEPY. And they don't have a fighting bone in their body. And when you pair that with a DVD player, SpongeBob SquarePants, and some headphones, you have the makings of a trip made in Heaven. Oh ... and I don't give them the medication just so I can have a peacful trip ... I give it so I don't have to sit there playing catch with projectile vomit.
Oh .... and just in case you wanted to see those stairs
posted by Knitting Maniac at 8:34 PM
I'm a mom of three peeps ... Queen Bee, The Door Man, and the Chandelier Monkey, and wife to Ace, the Helpful Hardware Man. I created this space to get away from the people known as my inlaws, and because life with three kids and a hubby is all Unexplored Territory.
The nine-year-old who seems to be growing older every minute, has an opinion and a comment for everything, and has a true servant's heart.
The seven-year-old who loves the organization of things, will someday be someone's therapist because of his kind soul, and will more than likely be living with us until he is 40 years old.
The five-year-old with the 13-year-old attitude, who has a dictator's personality, asks you to watch her all the time and say "hold on" to keep your attention, and will someday come home on the back of some dude's motorcycle with 10 tatts and a body piercing or two.
The man of the house, the fixer of things, the winner of prizes, and the only person in his family to escape the South.
Just don't let me stand next to a computer monitor
Give her some love!
Pass the bong but don't tell the Pastor
Don't forget about my renter!
Things we get honestly
and to end the evening ...
Feeding the mosquitos ... one kid at a time
You know it is time to leave the family get togeth...
Tell 'em Jimmy Honk sent you
And with a dismissive wave of the hand...
7 Comments:
Oh man, stairs like that kill. If you ever drive through Michigan's Upper Peninsula, stop at Tahquamenon Falls and you'll feel right at home. They have stairs like that there. Awesome falls, killer stairs.
Glad you found the winning combination for a peaceful (and vomit-free) trip.
I tried Dramamine on my oldest once...made him hyper. Then again, so does Robitussin. I'm afraid duct tape is the only solution for a peaceful trip for us. LOL!
Those are some scary scary stairs!
LOL, Sue. Dramamine makes the Door Man meaner than a snake after a while. But for the first few hours, he is drugged up pretty good.
Yeah. Those stairs are very very scary. And is there any moral/ethical issue with giving your kid dramamine for a car trip even if he doesn't get carsick? (Just wondering.... ;-)
Hmmmm Ginny ... for me, if the kids don't need anything, I don't give it to them. However, I do give Queen Bee Dramamine ... just in case. She has never physically gotten sick on a trip, but has complained about getting a headache and a stomach ache... so there are makings there.
Some kids react differently to Dramamine, too ... my Mom said that my brother and sister would get all hyper ...
Look at you and all your random comments..ok, so I got a new stalker..not sure where she came from.
But I refuse to start a Xanga account just to say thanks for looking at my blog. HA!
It's ok that Ace ratted me out..not sure it was all understood anyway. No problem..she wouldn't spend money that way anyhow.
Plan on croppin on the 21st and a stampin up partee at my casa on Aug.6th. You haven't had your fix for awhile, let me remind you that you need to do that.
Hey...there is another house for sale across the street....
And, of course those are stairs from hell, you know where they are leading! HA!
Wow--that is quite a staircase. That's gotta be worth at least 100 calories!
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