Friday: 12 hour drive overnight. Broken DVD player 1 hour in. Addie refuses to sleep. Requires constant stops for snuggles. Wakes up newborn each time. Addie insists only daddy sit next to her. Short incosolable newborn time. Everyone finally falls asleep around 4am (other than me, the driver). Arrive for breakfast at 7:30am.
Saturday: Zombie of a day from no sleep. Say hi to family then 3 hour nap. Addie gets to ride 2 ponies and see the ducks. Dinner with family. Addie loves being center of attention. Family fights over who gets to hold baby.
Sunday: Father's Day. Sleep late then wait forever for breakfast (restaurant was packed). Lounge at motel for kiddos to get naps. Leave for memorial. Nice memorial. Loren misses most of it because Addie refuses to let him enter the church. Lots of people I don't know at dinner. Addie has a ball with Dillon. Hayden gets passed around. Exhausted by the end of the night.
Monday: Boys go golfing. Addie plays with Dillon. Dinner with Loren's other side of the family.
Tuesday: Ready to be home, but refuse to do the 12 hrs straight again. Say goodbyes and head to Redding. Realize we left my favorite pillow at the motel. Relatively uneventful trip there - only one stop for lunch. Make it to Ron and Patty's beautiful house. Lounge, swim, have a delicious dinner, walk by the river.
Wednesday (today): Boys insist we head out early to mosy up to Bend. Have only stopped for babies - at rest stop, Klamath for lunch, and gas station. Babies continue to cry. Dented grill on my new van from semi tire. So ready to be home, but not willing to do the 6 hrs from Bend without some downtime...
About Me
- Pixie Starlet
- I am a wife to Loren and mother to Adimus (Addie - 3yrs), Hayden (1.5yrs), Lucas, and Bailey (the latter are my 4-legged children). A few friends inspired me to blog, although I'm not sure it's all that interesting -- I really just like to show off my cute kids. :) My husband calls me a hippie, but according to Facebook I'm just "kinda crunchy" which I think fits better. I cloth diaper, breastfed my babes, recycle, use cloth bags and re-usable waterbottles, and try to make changes where I can -- I know I can always improve. I'm trying to get back in touch with my "crafty" self by knitting and sewing again. I also love my job and am fortunate enough to still have time to be home with my littles. Life is good!
2 comments:
OH my! Makes me exhausted reading it! My kids (mostly Cayden) cries the whole time we travel. At least you did not have a puker!!! My kids always puke on our vacations (sometimes both of them). Glad you made it home safe and sound. THat sucks about your gril! We hit a bird when we got our Tahoe and took it on its first big trip and had to replace the whole gril.
Ah kiddo hang in there. We miss you
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