all packed up and ready

you all must be thinking “again with the packing?” I know. I’m sick of it too.

When we get home there’s going to be a lot of cleaning. There is crap everwhere. clean laundry in piles in the living room and my room. Its become  a place for the kids to burrow under. oy.

I’ll post from the road tomorrow.

we need all the luck we can get!

Getting ready, again

Early Friday morning we fly off again. This time to Sun Valley, Idaho. I guess our routine this month is travel. Which certainly is unusual for us. We haven’t gotten on a plane in a year.
This time we are bringing the stroller, all 3 carseats and almost everything we own. It looks like we’re going to have beautiful weather out there. Highs in the 70s. Which to us might feel like winter, especially since there’s no humidity there (don’t forget to pack the eucerin!).
It’ll be wonderful to have David around every day for 10 days. We’ll both get to do lots of exercise. I plan on walking from the house into town and once I get acclimated, I’ll reverse the route and walk from town to home. It’s mostly uphill that way. I love the feeling of returning from the mountains feeling like a superhero!

Quite a day so far

I woke up with an enormous headache again today, and the kids must have just known, because we had an hour long scream-fest. They all ate breakfast, drank their drinks, and screamed for the better part of an hour. When all the kids are yelling like that, I kind of loose it. Finally I started slamming kitchen drawers, and that snapped Dorothy out of it. She told me that she didn’t like it when I, “slam things”. Then she was able to help me help Adam and Reid to calm down.

Then the boys and I did strollerfit. Outside. Thank god for a good breeze today. It was sweaty, but not terrible at all

Nothing

Had a great time

We’ve had a great visit with my family

Morgan loved her quilt

Ick

Not feeling good. Sorry

In NJ with Nona and Papu

And uncle matt and aunt Erin and Brandon and Morgan and bis nona and uncle Arnold. And that’s it, so far

Traveling here wasn’t terrible…it could always be worse…
We were delayed for an hour in the airport and an hour in the plane. Reid cried for a while and I felt like buying my seat mates–or maybe the whole plane–a drink. We didn’t get to my parents until 9:30 and everyone was exhausted. The boys fell asleep in the car before we left the airport.

Today all the kids had fun playing in the backyard and tonight my brother and his family are staying here 6 adults and 5 kids in a two bedroom apartment. Should be an experience!

The boys are slowly getting used to my parents. Dorothy is thrilled to be back with them

Packing it in

It’s raining again today. We may need to build an ark to get ourselves to the airport today. We’re flying off for the weekend to New Jersey this afternoon. Not taking a stroller. We’ll each be wearing a baby and dragging a suitcase. Just like the old days when we didn’t use a stroller or check bags when it was just Dorothy. Aah, the good old days

I’ve got hours to go, and I think I’m all packed up–except for last minute things like bibs and snacks, and taking out the trash

Of course this is all just practice. Next Friday we leave for 10 days in Sun Valley. All the carseats, stroller and pack and play come with us next time. I’ll think about it tomorrow

Rain rain go away

It’s been raining since early this morning. I couldn’t even think about going out to strollerfit. We would have gotten soaked going from the car to the gym. Adam and Reid took advantage and took a good morning nap. I took advantage of that and did some laundry.

Tomorrow we leave for a weekend with my family in New Jersey. I’m organizing all of the kids stuff today. Clothing, pj’s etc. Must remember to pull together all the cool gifts for Morgan. Can’t wait to give it all to her..okay to Erin. I know a 6 week old infant isn’t going to care about the gifts!

In my yard

Saw a blue heron (possibly) walking magestically through my backyard

The picture doesn’t do it justice, but it was really great to see nature up close