I’m a holy terror before we leave on vacation.
That’s because I want to leave a tidy house (Beds made! Vacuumed! Light timers prepped!) the fridge cleaned out, cat & fish sitters covered, everything packed properly and not just jammed into suitcases, car cleaned before we pack it, decent snacks in a cooler so we don’t buy overpriced crap on the road….see?
Total perfectionist maniac.
Which is fine, except I never allow enough TIME to do all my maniacal stuff.
I insist on cramming it into the last 4 hours before departure so that everyone, including myself, wants to shoot me as we pull out of the driveway.
Answer? Detailed checklist. Starting a couple days before departure. Execute it. Stop screaming at everyone. Leave happy.
I’m trying.
How about you?
(Note: most of this comment was left as a response to Dad traveler Chris Brogan’s audio post Vacation: A Dad’s Eye View 1. Chris also runs the excellent site Dad-o-matic.)
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You are not alone. I don’t know what always possessed me. I always have to do loads of laundry and never have enough time to put it away.
The only part about travel I don’t like is the 2-4 hours before you leave the house. I am a screaming, frantic, cutting years off my life maniac with you, sistah!
Lists/smists. I still try and do a few loads of laundry that include things on my lists. Oh, and there is that small complication that our children can through a wrench in schedules in list and always do!
Oh well. That is why there is a bar/margarita/bottle of wine waiting for me at where ever we are going.
OMG, I forgot about the laundry! Are the children in it?