Episode 95: Now What? Road-tripping from Alaska to Florida
What You’ll Learn
Ashley Davis (01:58)
Takeaways (49:39)
Welcome back to the Just a Mom series! Of course no mom is JUST a mom and in this series we're shinning a little light on mommas AND their stories. If we've learned anything in the past 14 years connecting mommas, it's that our seemingly ordinary and quiet stories connect and encourage fellow mommas more than we know. And after learning the real meaning behind the quote "Well-behaved women seldom make history" we knew we needed to get more mommas sharing their stories.
Dr. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the owner of that quotation, as well as a historian, author, educator, and mother of 5 was dedicated to telling the quiet stories of ordinary people...and she won a Pulitzer Prize for it. Because, as she states, “it is in the very dailiness, the exhaustive, repetitious dailiness, that the real power lies… living has to be measured in doing.” and mommas...we are ALWAYS doing!
It's the really difficult dailiness that holds so much of the beauty of our contributions as mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters...and it rarely gets attention or credit, because as Ulrich stated, well-behaved women seldom make history. So let's change that!
Ashley Davis (01:58)
5 kids...12 days...one van....over 5,000 miles...all in the middle of the Pandemic....and no I'm not talking about our big family road trip from back in 2021...our guest today road-tripped as a family from the far reaches of Alaska all the way down to Florida when they got PCS orders from the Army back in 2021. She is a devoted homemaker, homeschools, has a bearded dragon, and is a talented artist. She is due with her 6th precious baby ANY DAY NOW and has become a dear friend of ours. Ashley Davis...welcome!
Takeaways(49:39)
Simple is key on family road-trips. This goes for food, packing, and entertainment.
Being the co-pilot can create beautiful bonds with your driver, when you find ways to connect, especially through shared experiences.
Entertainment can be simple, even as simple as a three-ring binder filled with paper for drawing.
Bored kids grow in creativity and in their relationships.
Understanding our personality types—if we’re careful not to use them to box people in—can be very helpful in foreseeing and solving challenges on the road.
Going on a road-trip creates bonds, helps diagnose certain things to work on in your family, and gives you memories to last a lifetime.
Alone time might not be as elusive as it seems on a road-trip, it might just be disguised as “laundry.”
Choose to remember things well, journal with pen and paper, or video, or photos, and then relive those memories with your families.
Always remember momma…you are doing beautiful work!
