Prepping

Knowing we’ll be living out of the car and various hotels for about two weeks before arriving at the Jersey shore, I felt like I needed to better prepare the family for the long days on the road.  Today’s accomplishments included:

1.  A trip to Trader Joes for non-meltable foods such as dried fruit, nuts, puffs (I mean really!), popcorn, and crackers.  Upon arriving home, all food was divided up and packaged into smaller ziplock bags.  All snacks are in their own bin ready for distribution.  We are prepared for, “Mom, I’m hungry.”
2. A fully stocked (and not expired) medical kit.  This includes a small drugstore and lots of bandaids.  I even ordered a large roll of moleskin and included little scissors to make application easier.
3. A fully stocked shower caddy that includes soap, shampoo, conditioner, deodorant, razors, lotion, and more.  Instead of each person carrying their own soaps, having it all in one place should make hotel showers easier.  Plus, no need to be filling up the little travel bottles every couple of days.
4. A clean up kit.  For all sorts of clean up.  Wipes, paper towels, barf bags, sanitizer,
   baggies of all sizes, and Kleenex.  Did you know you can order the hospital-like barf bags on Amazon.  Super cheap, easy to open, and won’t collapse.  I’m hoping we don’t need them, but I’d rather have them just in case!
5. A kitchen-on-the-go kit.  We’re hoping to just have one meal out per day.  For all other meals, we’re planning to find markets and use a cooler.  For our mini car kitchen, we have a cutting board, knife, plates, sporks, towels, salt/pepper, and dish soap.
6. Fans!!!  We have read up on the places we’ll be staying and there are a few spots with no air conditioning.  Chris found some tiny, but powerful fans that fold down and are easy to pack.  They’re definitely cute and I love the colors.  I’m hoping they keep us from melting!