Road Trip Games for Teens and Tweens

Would you rather.....be stuck on a road trip with rambunctious toddlers or sullen teens? -- Me

Travelling with kids is hard.  And let me tell you, it doesn't get a whole lot easier when they're teenagers.  We drive back and forth to Connecticut a few times a year to visit my family.  It's not an easy trip (that I-95 corridor in the mid-Atlantic is brutal).  And once there, there's not a whole lot of things to do.  So it's kind of a boring trip all the way around as far as my boys are concerned. 

Over the years we have tried different things.  I posted a few years ago about a ______________ for kids.  And we have used that over and over and over.  I have had workbooks that I have pulled pages out of.  I have downloaded appropriate worksheets from Educators.com.  That keeps them occupied for a bit.  They love games where the whole family is involved, so it has to be an oral game so the driver can participate too.

I've notice that the game "Would you rather....?" has become very popular recently.  I see it all over Pinterest, and all different categories for different holidays and such.  My boys love playing this.  We've bought a card game and try to come up with our own scenarios.  But Landeelu has provided a whole list of Would You Rather questions.

I love that you can just print the questions and cut them out into strips.  I put them in a little jar and have left it in the car so it is ready anytime we are on the road.

Do you have any games that you and your teens like to play in the car?

From my board "Children make your life important."

Sausage and Cheese Biscuits

"One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast." -- Robert A. Heinlein

OK.  So I have created a summer bucket list for my kids to do.  This is the first summer that they are home alone all day while both parental units are working.  I don't want them to get bored, and I certainly don't want them fighting and ready to kill each other by the time I walk in the door at the end of the day. 

So I thought, why don't I create a bucket list for myself.  I have taken each of my Pinterest boards and selected one pin that I would like to complete by the end of the year.  I have taken some liberties with this - I'm not going to try to complete a St. Patrick's Day or Valentine's Day pin by the end of the year (since it is July).  So I've allowed myself a few allowances (can I use the same work twice in a sentence?).

It started today.  Happy Independence Day everyone.  (It started as a rainy day here in Virginia.  I told my boys that our countries forefathers are crying over the condition our country is in today, but I digress.)  Nobody is at work.  Nobody is at school.  I decided it was the perfect time to try a new breakfast item.  Everybody in my family loves breakfast meat, so I thought Sausage and Cheese Biscuits by Taste and Tell would be perfect.

What I loved about this recipe is that you make these biscuits from scratch.  Don't get me wrong - I am all about the ease and convenience of mixes and starters and such.  But sometimes I wonder how much more difficult would it be to make it from scratch, and know exactly what's in your food.  So, these were perfect.  The hardest part?  Cutting the butter into the flour.  Note to my mother-in-law:  a pastry cutter would be a great gift!  I would get much more use out of it than a frozen drink mixer.  (No, no, no.  It wasn't THAT kind of frozen drink mixer ladies.)  Other than that, super easy.



So hubby and I thought they were yummy.  The boys complained that there was not enough sausage in them so B proceeded to cook the rest of the sausages that I did not use.  The good news is there are leftovers so I get to take one for breakfast tomorrow!

This gets a family score of 3 stars - liked it, but not going to make this every week. 


(From my board "What's For Breakfast?")