food for thought

To Grandmother's (and Granddad's) house we go!

And in honor of our current favorite travel game, here's what we're packing:

Animal and alphabet books
Blanket (Eli)
Clothing for three days (knowing we can do laundry partway through the trip)
DVD player to get through 10 hours on airplanes (plus who knows how long in airports...)
Eli's two stuffed doggies
Fanny at Chez Panisse (Ben's bedtime reading of choice)
Granola
Hats
i-phones? ice-cream? no, none of these I items
(Eli)

Laptops
Monkey (Ben)
New Yorkers from the last month (I'm being optimistic)
O's cereal
(Caroline's book)
a sketch for a Quilt I'm thinking of commissioning from Susan's mom
books
The Spirit of St. Louis (Tony's book)
Tofu jerkey (Tony)
Unlined drawing paper for the boys
Very many stickers for Eli
Warm sweaters
2 oz bottles of toiletries that will make it through the X-ray screening
Yellow, and green and blue and red and black markers
Z-bars (the kid Cliff bars)

Labels: family life, travel