Pre-Travel Stress!

It's 11:30 Saturday morning and I'm packed and ready to go. Or as ready as you can be, I guess, when you're scared out of your mind how the 7 hours of planes and airports are going to go. I've thought of a lot of things to take care of, but what frightens me is that either I won't have thought of something important or what I have thought of won't work. I guess we'll find out soon enough, and it's only a day and then 3 weeks of California will make it worth it. Miciah is really excited and I think she'll be pleasant enough to travel with. She's equiped with a Barbie doll and new coloring books, so she's got her backpack on already and comes up to me about every 3 minutes asking if I'm ready to go because SHE'S ready to go. She knows she can't play with the toys until we're on our way. I have enough snacks and toys and comfort items that I don't see why this day couldn't go smoothly. But I've also packed a change of clothes in the diaper bag, just in case the day goes like that. I'm not convinced Elijah will be entertained, but I'm not sure how many 2-year-olds could be. I'm hoping Miciah can stay calm and happy and that will influence Elijah. Usually he's a great kid, but he'll be bored out of his mind and he actually doesn't sleep too well when someone's holding him (he's always been that way), so this could be an interesting day.

If you guys get this today, you could pray for me and the kids at random times. I've been praying for myself all day so far. I doubt that will stop. I'm also bringing enough Tylenol to kill a cow. Just in case prayer isn't enough.

Life

Our week has been good. It finally began feeling like normal by about Wednesday. As I predicted, just in time for us to pack up and get ready to go. Miciah is feeling much better and likes to take her medicine. She's been pretty pleasant, though she's been annoying us to no end. I don't understand why the rule "No singing/shouting at the dinner table" should have to be repeated at least 3 times during every dinner. Our kids have been feeling the stress of the last week and a half as much as we have, and it's pretty obvious.

The T's Car Troubles

We unexpectedly had over our good friends the T's last night for dinner. Friday morning he got in a car accident. It's a long involved story and it's about the funniest I-can't-believe-that-actually-happened story I've heard. Their car may be totalled and his insurance might choose to not pay for much, if any of it. We told them they should have taken our car we were going to give them for free because right now they wouldn't be car-less, then. But oh well, the car has been given to someone else. But because of the timing of me going out of town, they have our little Corolla for the time being until they get everything sorted out. I don't envy them, it's going to be long and complicated.

I will see most of you soon. I love you guys and am grateful for you.

Tamra