One of the best things we did with the move was do a map for Matilda... so like a page for every 5 hours of driving or day etc... We had pictures of the places we were staying in it and when we got there she was running around showing us where things were and everytime we stopped for petrol she wanted to see where it was on the map.

I did it a month before we left and read it to her every other night or so. She took it to Montessori for show n' tell (and it was a bodge job... I printed out photos and pasted them in my "story" and then put contact on every page so they couldn't be ripped off etc. So it truely was bodgy. I had every day of the trip mentioned from the packing of boxes and saying goodbye to the first week of being here. Funny that everything fell apart with Matilda after our first week. Its probably because the book finished!!!