WEEK EIGHT

It was my first mother's day with two children and it wasn't as picture perfect as I hoped.  I did get to spend it with the people I love, my husband, Colby and Caitlyn.  Let me explain.  We left Thursday headed towards Gillett, PA in hopes that the children would be asleep for the drive.  Originally the drive takes 5.5 hrs with no children.  As one can imagine, with two children, it took 8 hrs to get to PA.  Colby did not fall asleep until 11 o'clock.  Caitlyn screamed her head off every hour or so.  Either she needed a diaper changed, food or just wanted to get held.  It was a disaster.

We finally got to Bill's mom's house at 1:00 am.  We then had to put all the cribs together, get somewhat settled and try to make the kids go back to sleep.  After all the driving was over, Bill and I were glad to finally be out of the car and ready for some needed sleep.  The next two days were fun.  We went to a bouncy fun center and Colby had a blast jumping on the bouncers.  He got to play outside in a giant yard and see the cows or the "moooss" as he calls them.  Caitlyn got passed around.  His Aunt Deb, Uncle Kevin and Aunt Joani all came to see us too for a visit.  It was great seeing everyone.

We left Sunday (Mother's Day) to go to my grandma's in NJ to spend Mother's day with all my family.  We left at 10:40 and did not arrive until 4:30 pm.  Another long drive that should had only taken us 3.5 hrs without children.  The same story, but this time we stopped 7x instead of 6.   Around 3 o'clock I got a text from my Aunt that my grandma had fallen earlier and was taken to the hospital.  She blacked out and fell while in the bathroom and the employees at the residence found her.  She is okay now, but will be going to rehab.  My Aunt did not want us to visit her while she was in the emergency room.  Our mother's day celebration was a bust and we ended up spending the night at my grandma's alone.  We did stop by Marsha's for a short time and Uncle David visited Sunday night after he left the hospital.

After all was said and done, our visit was short, but extremely tiresome being in the car.  We did make Bill's mom's happy by spending time with her.  We did learn that flying just like long road trips are now out the door until the kids are older than 3.  Sorry people no more traveling for us ;-) (except for Grammy's 90th birthday celebration).