Another great idea when you are traveling is to give your children a book they can use as a travel log.  Take them to Barnes and Noble, Borders, etc and let them pick out a hardcover book with blank pages.  I like the spiral binding kind since they stay open more easily when writing in them.

Then bring pencils, pens, scotch tape and maybe even some colored pencils along on the trip (markers leach through the paper). 

I am on my second book and I fill them with funny things that happen, license plates I see, miles I travel, what I eat and then I tape all sorts of things in.  I save plants and flowers and lots of empty sugar packets that have names of hotels and restaurants in my log. 

My mom has logs pasted in all her travel scrapbooks.  It is great fun to see how much it cost to eat and sleep on the old trips, so add that to your log.  (Moms and Dads, by sharing some of the costs of your trip, such as gas and food, it can help children begin to understand money and costs with regards to the things we do). 

So get out your notebooks and starting saving those memories.

Miss Jennifer