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Not that I am happy about it, but I am glad someone else can't read in the car!!!

OMG love love that second picture, the sweet kids and both you and your sister blond hair! You are so awesome at getting the best angles for photos.
So excited that your sister and niece are still in town with you, so good to have her there for you and give extra support and hugs I'm sure. So lucky we are to have sisters that do that for us, they are the best!!
I did a layout early this year about "THE BACKSEAT" only mine was about my kids being older and not babies. I wrote about the newest electronics they all have in their hands when we travel and the big gym bags and sports equipment and what music we listen too. Then about how it use to be diaper bags, stuffed toys, pacifers and carseats, so much has changed in my rearview mirror now.

I like that you wrote about your childhood though, such good memories. We had a station wagon and would lay in the back too and then in the back of my mom's truck also when camping, so much fun to be in the back whispering with my sisters and coloring and eating candy and chips. Miss those good old days.
Thanks Ali for this sweet post and for reminding me of my car rides as a child.
Happy Monday to you.
p.s. the third photo down isn't showing up??

I totally remember VC Andrews novels on long car trips! so glad you had a safe journey and time with your family, it makes the journey so worth it.

I read all of the VC Andrews books!

Car trips for us were always filled with the cassette tape Whispering Jack by John Farnham. Today we all still love it because of the memories! Great post today.

Love the photo ... Wish my kids would sleep in a car! Also hoping that things are on the up with you and Chris after the "challenging time" you mentioned a few posts ago.

I use to read on the bus home from college every day but I couldnt' do it for long now I feel sick if I do.....childhood memoreis are filled of trips to cousins in the holidays or they would come and visit us....I always remember and will never forget we use to always play eye spy...and this one trip I remember asking mum why birds don't get electrica shoots from standing on the power lines and my older brother replied with they wear special shoes.....at the time I beleived it, its always something that has stuck with me.....Love the photos of the kids awake then all sleeping too Ali

we use to sing in the car! i hope my kids have good memories of trips as a family...

love those books...and what a happy trip for you all!!! yeah we always drove across the country...montana for us...so fun...my brother and i would sleep and read most of the way!!

I always loved and still love road trips the beauty of America is a wonderful blessing to view and I just finished reading Flowers in the Attic series for the millionth time. V.C. Andrews is a favorite author esp. her older books. Have a great week Edwards family!

V.C. Andrews fan here! I forgot all about those crazy books until now! You are a gifted story teller!

great photos---and yes, I read and loved VC Andrews---hmmm sounds like a page for my BAM

You know you are from the PNW when you say "way back"!

Thanks for sharing that. I was a VC Andrews reader too. For some reason something about those books freaked me out though - I think it was the children in the attic one. We also never took an airplane. Perhaps as a family of seven it was difficult and too expensive to fly. We were a station wagon family...and I also remember riding in the back lying down...even the rearview window opened (via parental control)! Yes, carseat belt laws were very different back then. What a great topic for a scrapbook page of my childhood memories! The wheels are spinning for lots of other childhood memories to scrap.

I meant "Flowers in the Attic"... see how our memories fail us?

We sang in the car a lot too! Especially around Christmas time, because we had so many car trips to make- 6hours in one direction to grandma's, 5 hours in another direction to the other grandma's, 4 hours back home. Ay...When our chevy van finally went caput when I was in middle school, I remember my dad going shopping with all of us (me and my two sisters), telling us to pile into each vehicle he was considering, then asking us, "Ok, can you sit like that for 10 hours?" If we shook our heads, it was a no-go. If we shrugged and said ok, it stayed on the list for consideration.

VC Andrews!! Haha! Totally forgot about those. Thanks for that trip down memory lane.

Great pics! Love the comments from your rents on car trips and your personal perspective as well. I read the VC Andrew novels too--used to read ANYthing in the back of the car and not get sick. Now I can hardly check my phone in the front seat without feeling puny! LOL
Thanks for sharing. Happy Monday Ali! :)

I loved VC Andrews! Can't imagine what my mother was thinking letting me read them!

Wow, your post took me back to a simpler time, a time of good memories. Our vehicle of choice was the Merc station wagon with "wood" on the sides and the cute little flip up back seat in the way back. Yep, no iPods, iPads or laptops-just pure paper and pencil/books fun!
Hope you are doing well-thanks for the trip down memory lane.
KP