| Sep. 12th, 2006 @ 05:15 pm home again |
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Current Location: home
Current Mood:  content
Current Music: wind and birds
The kids and I have been home since Friday evening, but we are far from "recovered".
To recap- We took the red-eye to Nashville the last Tuesday of August. They slept a whole 4 hours that night. We did a bunch of errands and such in TN over the next few days and suffered the smog and allergens in the air. On Friday, Sept 1st, we started driving out of Ft. Campbell, KY toward Portland, OR. The driving itself went smoothly. We drove 500 miles each of the first 4 days and 360 miles on the final day. The kids did great in the truck and actually liked all the riding. However, they never got used to having activities come to them, and didn't nap a whole lot. It meant that they would be wound up AND tired by the end of the day.
Stressful part of the trip-- on Saturday the 2nd, my parents made it home from TN and got the phone message from Holly's apartment complex wanting to know if she still was interested in the apartment. WTF??? It seems that the person she was dealing with was fired and failed to tell management that Holly was renting the 3 bedroom townhouse. With the long weekend and the planned arrival of her moving van at the end of the week, she was forced to take a 2 bedroom apartment instead of the 2 + den. The place is nice and roomy, but isn't as roomy as the townhouse would have been with the visitors she will be having. Oh, well.
Other joys of the trip-- driving toward Twin Falls, ID, we were forced to turn around on the interstate to avoid driving thru a wild fire. How exciting! The detour took us behind the burn, so we actually saw flames. The bad part of this was all the smoke in the air thru the rest of ID from multiple fires. It didn't help our lungs, already bothered from the allergens in TN-MO. Good things-- First, we swam at 2 hotels after swimming 2 times in TN. W (2) was pushing us away from him in the pool as he was able to keep himself upright in the water and kick himself around with his flotation swim suit. K is much more confident with her water wings. Hopefully over the winter we will get them both swimming unassisted. Second, K read her first word, unpromted! She was wearing a shirt that had "LOVE" in sequens on it one day. The next, we stopped at a Love's station and she read the sign. She has since added a few more words. We're on our way!!!
We didn't have time to do anything in Portland, besides unpack boxes and buy a few supplies. We'll figure out a visit schedule once my sister gets her class schedule figured out. |
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