Crazy or Great Idea?

    As a single mom raising four kids, the word crazy has come up a few times. Let's face to raise four children on your own, it takes a certain amount of crazy. The craziness of life when you are a single mom can wear on a person and it seems that the is very little time for fun, vacations or even small trips. Not to mention the daily errands and running around there is when you have four kids who are active and busy. I love it though. I wouldn't change a whole lot.
    Their dad lives across the country and recently I decided that it would be a good idea to move to Maine, (where their dad lives). They need their dad, just as much as they need me and it is obvious to me as the days move on. He is missing out on so much of their lives and they are missing out on his. Divorce,
sometimes sucks and our children are the ones who end up suffering for it. So what is my bright (or to some, crazy) idea? To drive across the country with them. Yes I said drive across the country with 4 children. Insane I know.
     Call me crazy, but I love my children and I love spending time with them. Yes, they fight and they aggravate me, but they are still mine and they are still interesting, each in their own right. Being a single mom it is tough to schedule family time with mom being in school, kids having various sports and after school activities and just the daily grind of every day life.
    For me I see this as an opportunity to spend quality time as a family while seeing various parts of our country. Obviously we will have to stop and A wants a souvenir from every state we go through. What a great way to spend a part of our summer while spending time together.
    This will totally take a lot of planning, research and budgeting, but I think it will be quite the adventure and Oh so much fun. So for the next little while I have decided that this blog will be about the planning and the trip to Maine...who knows maybe I won't like it and we will come back, but at least they will get to see their dad! I will also be researching vans and SUV's that are able to carry a family of 5 comfortably across the country and still not be a gas guzzler. You let me know, is traveling across the country a crazy idea or a brilliant idea?

Until the next scribble....