130 boxes, 11 states, and 5 days later we've finally arrived in Austin and things are starting to look rosy. 5 days on the road with 2 kids and a dog (who sat on my lap the entire car ride down) was... challenging. Singing, songs, playing trivia games and reading books all along the way it was not. It was however, a lot of talking, questions, dropping things which I had to apparently grow a second spine and 5 arms to reach and lots and lots of snacking. I don't think I've ever eaten so much beef jerky! Plus that bin of toys that I so carefully packed and picked for each individual child was barely ever opened. They decided that fighting and staring out the window was a much better use of their hours in the car. Though I must admit we did break out the iPads for the last 2 days of our trip. Thank goodness for that! Halfway into our trip we had to bring the car to a mechanic to have it looked at, which almost caused my neurotic, anal self to almost self implode. The only thing that made it better was that this happened near Atlanta, Ga and we were able to stay an extra day with my cousin, Soupbelly. Which also meant about 5000 extra calories worth of eating that I had not originally accounted for! So despite the drama, hair pulling and exhaustion, we made and couldn't be happier. So to celebrate things starting to get rosy, I'm posting these Raspberry Jam Rose buns. Super soft milk bread wrapped around a raspberry lemon jam for a beautifully sweet treat!