Are We There Yet???

In a few days my husband and 2 older children will leave for our annual trip north. They will drive the

L-O-N-G road to Yukon together, while our youngest and I wait for several days and fly up to meet them.

During these last few days at home I am trying to get organized so as not to forget anything, and have as much as possible loaded into the truck with my husband.

My children, it seems, have other plans. They have made every attempt humanly possible to cause mayhem and destruction. They yell and scream. They push and shove. Every strategy in my bag of parental tricks has been trotted out in a vain grasp at some form of familial harmony.

All the while my husband is insulated from the chaos in the ivory tower of his workplace.

I can hardly wait for the silence of being at home with just one child, if only for a few glorious days.

Are we there yet??