Recipe for Disaster

Ingredients:

• 2 cranky children on the second and third days of cold symptoms
• 1 miserable parent on the first day of cold symptoms; bonus for lack of sleep the previous night due to drainage

Procedure:

• Strap down cranky children in car seats and insert into family vehicle.
• Place parent behind wheel of car and drive directly to McD's for LARGE COFFEE
• Stop for snacks and gas-station-sinus-meds to prevent parental head explosion
• Add emergency side-of-road potty stop (not for who you would think it would be for)
• Blend car with blinding rain storm for 5+ hours
• Encounter suddenly brilliant skies at precisely the time of day that sun visors cannot block sun
• Apply more sinus meds
• Arrive home nine years days hours later, just in time to prepare dinner for cranky/snotty/no-nap-having children out of cardboard and toothpaste because the cupboard is bare
• Enjoy!*

*The trip to visit my father and sisters was lovely. The kids and I had a great time and my dad's event raised a lot of money for a worthy charity. If only teleporters had been invented, the weekend would have been perfect.