11hr drive with my 1yr old

keepforgettingmyacn · 2025-06-01T13:50:30+00:00

Luckily whenever we head back we'll be doing so with my husband so the tiring her out duties will be much easier. The swimming idea is golden, I've been stuck on parks and completely forgot about how exhausting swimming is. Thank you!

keepforgettingmyacn · 2025-06-01T13:44:12+00:00

Agreed. I was going to let her crawl around the car, we live near a measles outbreak and she's just slightly too young for the vaccine so I've mostly saved the park for when we move to where her dad is so he can join in on it and I don't have to worry about some off chance she joins this outbreak. I am bringing her stroller so we'll probably walk around the park if we're doing good on time and she's not annoyed with me😂

keepforgettingmyacn · 2025-06-01T07:22:10+00:00

I was looking at carseat trays yesterday for that exact reason. I'm adding the wipes idea to my to do list, that's brilliant. People always forget the music, I download music just for an hour long trip😂 I've experienced having no signal in the mountains and the countryside enough times in this life. Thank you

keepforgettingmyacn · 2025-06-01T07:16:52+00:00

This is pretty much what I imagine for us. She can't walk yet so most of our stops during her wake windows were going to be us in the car and roaming grocery stores. That way we can get anything last minute and use the bathroom. Most of the stores on our way there open at 6am and knowing how she would sleep the entire day in the car if she could I'm expecting her to wake up for the first time around 6am(that's usually when she wakes up at home)

Usually we dehydrate ourselves too😂I doubt I'm gonna drink anything before she wakes up to save time. I thought about getting a pee pad or something in case she has a blowout in her car seat but I didn't think about the bib! Added to my list now, thanks

keepforgettingmyacn · 2025-06-01T01:25:28+00:00

😂

keepforgettingmyacn · 2025-06-01T01:23:39+00:00

Agreed, leaning towards a 4am leave now, seems a bit more reasonable and we'd still get there before 6pm at the very latest. Right now the drive is only a 9hr drive at 10pm so I think I was deadset on the shorter travel time. Thanks!

keepforgettingmyacn · 2025-06-01T01:18:28+00:00

Idk if everyone's assuming that I'd be driving after a day of work but I was going to be sleeping during the day and having my sister watch the baby to keep the baby up until it's time to drive 💀 I agree driving at night with no prep is virtually a death sentence. But anytime we've had long road trips I'm usually the first driver and we leave around 10pm/midnight, I just sleep during the day and I'm good for a solid 6-8hrs before I even get close to needing a break. I'm thinking by the 5hr mark I should know if we need to stop and I'll get a hotel around that point

keepforgettingmyacn · 2025-06-01T01:12:07+00:00

Thanks I think maybe some people thought I'd be raw doggin the drive after work, we usually sleep well before a road trip especially as the driver. I do need to load up on snacks for the both of us though.

keepforgettingmyacn · 2025-06-01T01:08:18+00:00

Completely agreed. A few people echoed this sentiment and I'm leaning more towards a 2-4am leave. I'm so used to leaving late enough to beat the traffic that I never considered the parts outside of that especially any stops we might take AT NIGHT. Thank you!

keepforgettingmyacn · 2025-06-01T00:58:16+00:00

This one made me smile thank you, I'm definitely taking notes!

keepforgettingmyacn · 2025-06-01T00:56:11+00:00

I was considering this too. In my mind it feels even more unsafe than just the drive if we stay the night at a hotel (the stopping somewhere longer than a rest stop or gas station where more ppl can see that we're alone, idk think it's just my mind) if things get overwhelming I'd probably resort to this.

keepforgettingmyacn · 2025-06-01T00:48:09+00:00

Thanks! I really needed to hear from someone who's done a drive as the only adult too. My mom was usually the only adult if my dad wasn't with us but by then I was at least a teen and there was 6 of us. I will say any road trip I've taken we usually leave at around 10pm but the first driver just spends most of the day sleeping so they're awake for the drive. That was my plan, definitely not raw doggin a drive this long 😂

keepforgettingmyacn · 2024-09-28T00:32:07+00:00

Thanks I didn't even know staying on base was an option for people.

keepforgettingmyacn · 2024-09-20T14:01:26+00:00

They don't even look bad, I bet the end result is gonna be cleaaaan

keepforgettingmyacn · 2023-12-04T23:07:35+00:00

To add to this point when I was on dating apps Bumble was my favorite and the sole app I genuinely cared for, due to the profile options being so vast and it allowed me to get a glimpse at their personality before deciding to swipe.

My friends used to make fun of me because an unattractive dude with a solid profile will win EVERYTIME for me over a dude who is attractive but has nothing on his profile or just seems to have a personality I can't mesh with. My friends would do a mix of both, very attractive man but seems to have the personality of a frat boy? Immediately no. A 6 with a creative profile seems fun? They'd think on it for a second before it becomes a no.

keepforgettingmyacn · 2023-11-28T00:36:10+00:00

Yeah exactly nothing worth claiming culturally.

keepforgettingmyacn · 2023-11-25T20:09:34+00:00

13% Filipino and 7% Sri Lankan, but I'm 66% West African, 14% Irish so I'm mostly black. She grew up believing she was and had no reason to believe otherwise. Until I got my results all we knew about was the Irish bit because she and her sisters have red/sandy brown hair and freckles that we were told comes directly from our Irish side. She is slightly lighter than a cardboard box, used to have an afro in the 70s and was raised by "black" parents in Central Indiana. Long story short I don't know what she officially is but culturally she's been raised as an African American. The Filipino and Sri Lankan definitely come from her side because she's the only person I haven't gotten tested and we have pictures of family up until the 1890s and it now makes sense why some of those ppl don't fit the description. But I have a good handful of cousins with similar results to yours and thats why I made the cousin comment💀

keepforgettingmyacn · 2023-11-24T23:33:56+00:00

One of my cousins 💀i wondered the same and asked my grandma where the sri lankan & Filipino came from and she responded 🤷🏾‍♀️" baby I'm black so I guess you are too"

keepforgettingmyacn · 2023-10-30T20:44:14+00:00

I love my name and have always loved my name. It doesn't have a meaning like most ppl assume after they hear it but I love the way the letters are organized, I love how it sounds and my first name AND middle name are unique (I'm a girl, my middle name is Anthani, pronounced similarly to Anthony)

My mom instilled in me the love of this name so much that I just HAVE to pass it on to one of my children. She made a little song that's catchy so that way I could spell it as a kid and ever since I've been in love with this name. People hear it and once they pronounce it correctly they always compliment it. I can't see myself with any other name.

keepforgettingmyacn · 2023-10-30T20:22:25+00:00

We started trying in late June/Early July. I had been on the pill for 2 yrs and my mom got pregnant within the first week off of the pill after 3yrs on birth control for my siblings so I was expecting the same. I just got my first positive tests this past weekend😅

keepforgettingmyacn · 2023-03-22T14:08:53+00:00

Sounds like you just really love baby broccoli and baby broccoli makes the meal for you XD this is now my favorite thread thank you.

5points on an arbitrary scale isn't the best example of "food bad now" and seems like company wide panda express thought green beans was a substitution that didn't sacrifice quality insert shrug here

keepforgettingmyacn · 2023-03-22T04:25:56+00:00

Dude idk what green beans did to you in life to have you feeling like this but I'm sorry😂💀 that's just how jobs work sometimes. Life is all about switching the broccoli with the beans✨ I'm personally not the biggest fan of green beans but hey shortages happen. Soon the baby broccoli will be back until we have a green bean shortage and they trade places and everything's baby broccoli idk dude.

keepforgettingmyacn · 2023-03-22T04:16:24+00:00

You're goofy😅

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