Oh the woes of traveling with kids.... the crying, the boredom, the walking/running from one airport gate to another, cramped spaces, changing diapers on a plane, grumpy people trying to sleep in the seats in front of you, snooty flight attendants... the list goes on and on. It's tough to travel with children. You could have absolute angels, but the moment those angelic faces step on a jet plane, they melt down in to some cranky kid you don't recognize!
I received a fabulous kit called the "My Busy Kit." It contains all sorts of fun craft and toy items, perfect for keeping the munchkins entertained. Check out the picture below of all the cool stuff included!
From little games to fun lacing crafts, the kids loved it! I loved that it was all contained in one neat package that can fit into any carry on or diaper bag.
Top 10 My Busy Kit Uses:
Airplane
Restaurants
Grandma's House
Road Trips
Doctor's Office
Church
Sporting Events
Quiet Time at Home
Birthday Goodie Bags
Gifts
Airplane
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Grandma's House
Road Trips
Doctor's Office
Church
Sporting Events
Quiet Time at Home
Birthday Goodie Bags
Gifts
What is special about My Busy Kit?
Every kit has a combination of items to spark curiosity and sustain interest over time. We include toys and activities from four main categories: color and draw, play and pretend, create and construct, and discovery (i.e., using gadgets to discover the world around you). By choosing a broad assortment of activities to encourage independent play, My Busy Kit becomes an imagination builder for kids, and a sanity saver for adults!
Would you like to win a My Busy Kit for your angel?
GIVEAWAY
One lucky TicTacDough reader will win a My Busy Kit!
MANDATORY ENTRY: Share your traveling disaster-- what went wrong on a vacation with the family?-- kid or no kids! =) (you must be a TicTacDough friend in order to win)
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Thank you for entering and Good Luck! For questions about entering, please see the giveaway rules. All opinions expressed in this post are 100% mine. A special thanks to My Busy Kit for participating in a giveaway!
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family disasters on trips, we go the wrong way or make a wrong turn and end up lost alot. it's so much fun. hahah.
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I follow your blog and and our disaster was that our child decided to throw up 1 hour into the 7 hour trip and we had to pull off and clean it all up and then to do it all over again 3 hours later... needless to say we found out she gets car sick!
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We rode across the ocean on a plane from island to island in the bahamas once with holes in the floor!! We could see the ocean beneath our feet.
I'm a follower.
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Ugh, my story is so long. I will try to keep it short. A few years ago (our 1st Anniversary) hubby booked us for a trip to Paris & a few stops in Italy. We arrived at the Delta counter plenty early to check in and were then told our flight had changed. We were NEVER notified. The ticket person researched and told us that they notified the online co we booked through?? Why they didn't call us directly, I have know clue. Anyway the next flight wasn't take off until the following afternoon, which means one less day in Paris & we had already paid for our hotel so we lost $$. We finally arrived in Paris and Delta lost hubby's luggage. Oh my, could this get any worse?! On our return flight Christmas eve, they canceled the flight due to tech difficulties. We were stuck in a foreign country, away from our family on Xmas. It was a disaster to say the least! Jenprincess88 at yahoo dot com
All of our luggage got lost on our honeymoon. We we stuck in the Athen's airport and there were a bunch of guards walking around with machine guns. It was crazy. We ended up getting a hotel and our luggage showed up the next day. Not the best way to start a honeymoon. :-)
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I think the worst we've had is overtired kids screaming in the backseat...not fun!
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Our honeymoon was split b/w Paris and the Bahamas. En route to Paris, our connection through London was canceled. The next flight wasn't for 4 hours. London, rain, no chance for extra sight-seeing...good thing we were too excited about the impending honeymoon to care!
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6 hours before we left for vegas i was in the er and found out i had broncitus .the trip was fun but i was on so many meds and couldn't breathe so we spent a lot of time in the hotel room.i would never recomend going to vegas sick.
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I babysit an easily bored 9 yr old during the summer! This would help a lot to keep him busy!
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My son & I each suffer from motion sickness, so traveling usually involves queasiness. No fun.
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I took my baby on a plane and sure enough she had a bm and it smelled and changing on the plane was a disaster.
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We have had pretty good luck, but one time was kida hard.
Hubby, myself, daughters ages almost 4 and 4 months (at the time)all flew from WA to TX to visit the in-laws. Hubby decided to buy a truck when he was there to drive home. On my way back without hubby and with our daughters I wnet through security. I had one daughter holding my hand and the other in the stroller. I had to figure out how to hold my infant while folding up the stroller and putting the stroller through the xray machine. It was very hard. No one wanted to help me because of the security laws. Then as I was walking through I beeped. My belt buckle had set off the alarm. At this point I had to take off my belt while still holding my daughter in my arms and holding the hand of my other daughter. I was almost in tears when I finally got through. UGH!
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The biggest travel disaster I had was when I was flying home from Wisconsin to Colorado. I arrived at the airport in plenty of time to get through security. I get to the gate and they tell me that my flight had been overbooked and there was no room for me.
After 14 hours of being on standby and no idea of when I would get home..I ending up buying my own 1 way ticket to get home...and NorthWest Airlines never reimbursed me.
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the last time i took my son on a plane..we ran out of diapers..we had to sit with a smelly kid for the last 15 minutes of the flight//i felt bad for my fellow passengers
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Husband and I went up north in Wisconsin to camp and it was fine for the first day but after that black flies by the thousands started to come in and were biting us so bad and even our dog, she had bad bites on her belly it was so sad. We ended up leaving the next day for the long ride home.
When my child was little, traveling was difficult. She was breastfed so it was tough to maneuver THAT in the car.
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We were riding our Harley on vacation and my husband came down with kidney stones. Not fun.
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We traveled with our then 1.5 year old to visit my husband's grandfather using delta/northwest (unfortunately our only option, literally) and our flights were consistently, severely delayed and connections were then missed (for most everyone on that late flight). We were caught with not nearly enough to keep our daughter entertained.
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Well, when I was a kid my parents decided to take my brother and I on a vacation to a campground in NC....after we drove for hours on end we got there at like 2am only to get eaten alive by sand fleas---HORRIBLE!!
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My daughter had horrible ear pain the entire 3 hours on the plane. It was awful!! she screamed the whole time.
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The worse vacation disaster I faced was when I took my son and niece on a cruise. We were in Miami at the Airport and our luggage was in Chicago!!! I spent an hour at the courtesy desk while 6 yo son and 7 yo niece (who were bored to death) did everything they could to break my last nerve.) The luggage finally made in to the boat but it was nerve wrecking waiting to see if it would show up
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We were in the process of adopting a baby, and she wasn't due for another five-weeks so we went on the cruise we'd booked months prior, before we were matched with a baby. We got an emergency page on the ship as we were backing away from our last port, that our baby was born and we needed to get home ASAP! We were stuck in the middle of the ocean for two-days unable to get home, get much information about what was going on, nothing! Then the airline would not change our flight so we could get home early because we used airline miles, so we had to buy one-way tickets to get home. Thankfully everything finally worked out, after the birth parents waivering on placing the baby because we couldn't get home, and we have our beautiful daughter home!
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Running out of gas with no gas station for miles and miles was our worst vacation disaster.
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Really the only disaster I have had (so far) is having my zipper break on my luggage. That was really special, I kept envisioning my clothes strewn all over the baggage carousel....
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One of the kids somehow manages to throw up in the car...it's awful.
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Last year when we were at Disney my husband and the kids got on a roller coaster. I stayed off with the baby and waited in the gift shop. Once my husband got out of the ride he did not find me and began searching. We waisted almost 2 hours looking for each other. It was a disaster now we have a designated meeting spot after rides.
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A huge poop blowout while driving across several states.
We recently were going to a beach house on an island in the puget sound and missed the morning ferry by like 8 minutes and then found out that the afternoon ferry was cancelled due to low tide so our only choice was the evening ferry that was 7 hours later. There was nothing to do anywhere near the ferry doc so we ended up back home and then going again later in the day.
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