Baseline Habits

In case you missed the news, we are going to be traveling to visit my sister in Missouri soon! I haven’t yet had to plan for a long road trip with little kids. This is the first time we’ll all be driving for a full day of travel with our kids in the back seat. We are actually going to break the trip up, and sleep over at a hotel halfway to Missouri. This means we will be driving for basically two long 7+ hour days before we even get there.

We are all a little anxious and even more excited! My husband and I bought these seat organizers and we are stuffing them with lots of fun activities for the kids to do while we’re driving. 

In the seat organizers we packed a dry erase board with markers, notepads with pencils and gel pens, sticker books, activity pads with mazes and crossword puzzles, card games like Go Fish and Old Maid, travel bingo cards, coloring book with crayons and more! We are going to install the organizers with all the goodies inside the night before we leave so it will be a surprise for the kids when they get in. We can’t wait!

The planning for the trip has been both fun and exhausting. A lot of my focus has been on planning for the trip lately, and buying all the things we need for the trip. Since my focus has shifted to something out of the ordinary my healthy habits went to baseline habits.

I notice my baseline habits for eating and healthy living aren’t as good as when I’m more focused on creating better habits. At my baseline, I don’t plan ahead meals or track my nutrition, and I don’t drink nearly enough water.

That basically sums up this past weekend when my trip planning was in full swing. This, too, is temporary. I will be able to focus on myself more again, soon. Now that I’m aware of it I can also do my best to focus on myself in the little moments right now. Like today, I am going to try to focus on drinking more water and plan out my meals better. I can still be intentional with myself even when things get more chaotic than usual.

We are feeling very blessed to be planning for this upcoming trip! I am so excited to make memories with our all of our families together soon! I’ll keep you updated!