SURVIVING ROAD TRIPS: GOOD ENOUGH MOTHER STYLE

Okay, before I even launch into this I have to tell you that I am FRIED! Not a little fried, but the kind of nerve jangling fried that comes from fighting 56 straight miles of bumper-to-bumper traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike, complete with fighting kids and farting dog.

Yes folks that is how I spent the day. We left vacation in South Carolina in a driving rainstorm last night, headed for New York. There’s no way, with fighting kids and farting dog, that I could drive all the way so we stopped for the night in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

Now, Buff, who’s been on his own for two weeks now and proclaiming his undying love for me and the kids everyday, had one simple request; that I bring home his golf shoes. So I threw both in the back of the SUV and headed up 1-95.

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