"Driving Makes Me Puke"

I don't know what it is about driving to and from Utah, but I always seem to have a child puking. This time was no exception. On our way up, the boys were happily watching a movie and it was beginning to get late. I was hoping they would fall asleep, but instead I got another surprise.

Wade had slept at the beginning of the drive and had not eaten very much. When we stopped to get gas, he chose some M&M's for his treat. He happily ate those and drank a little bit of Matt's soda. It only took about an hour for the treats to make it through his system and come back up--yuck!

Without warning he puked all over the place. I didn't even have a chance to catch or prevent it. As you can imagine the car smelled awful! We stopped and tried to clean most of it up and did a pretty good job.

You would think we would only have to worry about a puking child once a trip, this time it wasn't so. On our way to Trent's blessing, Seth puked too! UGH!
We were at my family reunion the night before and had to leave Springdale at 6:00am (our time) in order to make it to Matt's parents church on time to bless Trent. I had begged Matt to leave late the night before, but he didn't think it would be good idea (you can probably imagine how great that "I told you so!" felt! :))

So, we left in the morning and, call it mother's intuition, I kept my boys shirtless in the car because I didn't want them to spill on their church shirts--thank goodness! About 5 minutes south of Cedar, Seth said he was tired and just like that puked. It wasn't very much so we managed to clean him up without a lot of damage to his church pants.

As soon as I thought we had dodged a bullet, he puked TWICE more--each time it was more and chunkier (I know, GROSS!) WHAT A NIGHTMARE! We rushed to Gary and Shirley's, got Seth in the tub and dressed him in some khaki shorts for church--thank goodness we had some decent shorts that were clean since we were at the end of our trip! We even made it on time to the blessing--phew!

All I can say is, why me? Why do my boys puke every time we get in the car for a long trip? At least we were in a rental car instead of stinking up my car--thanks Avis--worth every penny!!