I have been frusterated with the kids not taking care of their books and toys that they take in the van with them when we go places.  It seems like we are always on the road, so there is constantly a mess in the van.  Yesterday, even though we had about 2.5 hours rt in the van, I decided that they kids were not allowed to take books, because I keep finding them on the floor.  It was amazing the fun we had on the way to town!  We played a couple of different games: Find the Flag, where everyone looks for flags and gets a point for each one found; Milepost, where you get a point for each milepost sign you see first; and the most popular one was the Alphabet game, where we took turns finding the next letter in the alphabet.  Some of the letters are a *LOT* harder to find than others!  I think we had the most fun with that one because we were all working together to find them instead of it being competition.  I am not one of those who proclaims that “Everyone is a winner!” at everything!  I think that competition is good, but sometimes it is nice a really good family relationship building time when we work together to accomplish something so simple. 😉