Planning a Road Trip - Helpful Items to Take

Helpful items for a road trip with kids

Frisbee - great for some quick exercise when making a stop
plastic boxes - one for each child, to hold their supplies - the lid makes a great desk or place to hold food.
clean water - several bottles of water work best for drinking, a quick wash up, cleaning a scrape and so on.
lightweight blanket - small child's blanket for cuddling with at nap time.
paper towels - for quick clean ups.
snacks - saltines, goldfish crackers - any kind of lightly salted dry cracker. Hard candy, such as life savers or tick tacks.
compass - fun for the kids if they want to help navigate.
trash bags - for storing laundry, wet items or just for trash.

Grannies Kitchen Items For a Road Trip With Kids

Travel Food For Kids

Travel Food


individual applesauce and fruit cups (don't forget plastic spoons)
dry crackers - small snack pack size
individual size water bottles (a permanent marker will help to keep these separate)
poptarts
individual cereal boxes
flavored rice cakes
juice boxes/bags
jar of peanut butter and loaf of bread (don't forget a plastic knife)

Grannies Kitchen - Travel Food For Kids

Activites For Long Trips With Kids - Bring Books

Bring Books!

Books are always a good choice whether you are at home or traveling on vacation. Mom or Dad may have to sit in the back seat for this one, unless your are fortunate enough to have a few books on tape. Bring along a tape or CD player with headphones which can be used for your books on tape or music. You can also combine books with counting, point out items in the books, like a cow or a barn and ask your child to watch for it.

Grannies Kitchen - Activites For Long Trips With Kids - Bring Books

Activites For Long Trips With Kids - Sing

Sing!

Kids love to sing. There are many songbook/cassette sets that children seem to love. Some favorites are the ones by Wee Sing. Disney soundtracks are also wonderful. And if tapes don't make them sing, maybe the songs will put them to sleep.

Grannies Kitchen Activites For Long Trips With Kids - Sing

Household Tips Candles

Refrigerate candles for several hours before lighting; it will cause fewer drips.

Grannies Kitchen Houshold Tip for Candles and Drips

Grannies Houshold Fridge Tips

* Wiping the inside of the fridge with vinegar helps prevent mildew because acid kills mildew fungus.






* For a fresh smelling fridge, keep a box of baking soda, a can filled with charcoal or dried coffee grounds or a cotton ball soaked in vanilla extract inside of it.


* Crumbled newspapers lining the vegetable compartments of a refrigerator will keep veggies crisp.

Grannies Kitchen - Household Tips for the Fridge

Perfect Pie Crust

Friday I had the pleasure of making fresh fruit pies with a dear friend who was classmates of my parents. Many times I have referred to her as my 2nd mom since my mother has passed away years ago. This pie crust recipe was one they where taught when they when in school by their homemec teacher in the 1950's.

This will make 1 two crust pie.

1 1/2 C Flour
3/4 C Crisco
1/2 t salt

Cut Flour, salt and crisco together till crumbs, Mix in 6 T cold water. Make a ball then roll crust out on a floured surface.

Grannies Kitchen- Perfect Pie Crust

Clothes Line News

A clothes line was a news broadcast to neighbors passing by.
There were no secrets you could keep when clothes were hung to dry.

It also was a friendly link for neighbors always knew
If company had stopped on by to spend a night or two.

For then you'd see the fancy sheets and towels on the line;
You'd see the comp'ny tablecloths with intricate design.

The line announced a baby's birth to folks who lived inside
As brand new infant clothes were hung so carefully with pride.

The age of children could so readily be known
By watching how the sizes changed, you'd know how much they'd grown.

It also told when illness struck, as extra sheets were hung;
Then nightclothes, and a bathrobe, too, haphazardly were strung.

It said, "Gone on vacation now" when lines hung limp and bare.
It told, "We're back!" when full lines sagged with not an inch to spare.

New folks in town were scorned upon if wash was dingy gray,
As neighbors raised their brows, and looked disgustedly away.

But clotheslines now are of the past for dryers make work less.
Now what goes on inside a home is anybody's guess

I really miss that way of life. It was a friendly sign
When neighbors knew each other best by what hung on the line!

Marcia Chumbley

A native of the Midwest farm country in Iowa, Marcia Chumbley has lived in a number of locations. She has resided in Chicago, Illinois; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Minneapolis, Minnesota., Living in rural and metropolitan areas taught Marcia to always look for the best opportunities each community could offer. She now lives in a rural area of Minnesota that has a small city flare and closeness to the land. Marcia’s work experiences outside the home include over 30 years in the medical and insurance field in manager, investigator and administrative roles. She has also worked as a contract administrator for a world wide security company. Marcia has work in the corporate world outside of her home and has various home based businesses over the years. She holds a degree in business management and is CMOM certified. Marcia is the founder and publisher of " Christian Work From Moms and Grandparents" web site, Faithful Grannies.com "Work At Home Divas Online for Boomers, Crafters and Stay At Home Moms, www.workathomedivasonline.com and Work At Home Moms Choices www.wahmchoices.com Marcia Chumbley: Specializing in Cooking Recipes http://grannieskitchen.blogspot.com/ She is a well known published and
featured author through out the internet and public speaker on domestic violence and a breast cancer surivor. She was choosen as a WAHM and SAHM of the 1st quarter of 2009 by Stay At Home Moms Online. http://stayathomemomsonline.com/momofmonth.html

Bookmarks Kids Crafts

Keep track of your favorite books with this handy bookmark
By Woman's Day Staff July 08, 2008 from WomansDay.com

Photo: © Paula Hible

Materials:
Fun Foam in assorted colors
Decorative scissors (optional)
White glue
Fine-point permanent markers in assorted colors
3/4" pompom
Two 5 mm movable eyes
Yarn

Instructions:
Cut 2" x 10" strips of Fun Foam for base of bookmark. Cut additional shapes, such as face or star. Use decorative scissors if desired.

Glue shapes to one end of strip. Decorate shapes with markers, movable eyes, pompom nose, yarn and hair.
Write names of books you’ve read on base strip.

Grannies Household Tips - Dusting

Dusting with a paintbrush can be an effective way to get into those hard to reach door jambs, etc.



Grannies Kitchen Household Tips