The Mommy's Place

My 5 yr old stayed in FL visiting with his grandma on his dad side.  He has been very excited about this visit and looking forward to it.

Me on the other had knew it would be dreadfully quiet here at home without him.  I am glad the 1 yr old is here with me to keep me busy.  It is still not the same 🙁

I find my days since Monday are long and go really really slow.

Well I will have to find tasks to keep me busy.  Hmmm I know I need to clean out all his broken toys and put all clothes he has out grown away.  I think that should keep me busy for quite a while.

My mom was suppose to catch a flight I had purchased for her to fly to OK at 6 a.m. Ah she had an hour to get thru security, but since the airport was very busy that morning she was put on standby. This in turn messed up our plan she was going to fly right back to Florida to help me with the two kids on the plane.

It all turned out well because my husband was able to fly to FL instead.

I did learn that I will not fly with the two kids alone again. It was just too stressful for me, never the less we made it. Sunday night thru Tuesday we stayed at my sisters house. Tuesday night we stayed at my mom’s house thru Monday when it was time to come home.

On Thur night was my older sons graduation, which I enjoyed so much. I can’t believe he is all grown up, time flies too fast. Now starts the difficult task of college, oh fun fun fun 🙂 I pray he will do well.

On Sunday we all got together for Father’s Day, it was a great ending to my time in FL. There were 40 in all between adults and children.

I was reminded on my trip to FL how nice it is to have family close by and spending those special time together. I return home to the quiet and slower pace we have. We almost don’t want to return back home. If only we could bring our home to FL. I am sure we will get used to our slow, quiet life again.

Ah yes we will do it all again next year, 🙂 something to look forward to.

I am taking a road trip to Corpus Christi, TX to visit my husband grand parents whom he had not seen in a couple of years. In our small car was our family which consists of two adults and two young children. Our first challenge was packing all that we needed in our car. My husband being a good packer got it all in.

We had originally intended to leave at 7 am, but being the procrastinators that we are we didn’t leave till about 9 am.

Our first night we stayed in Temple TX.  The second day we drove to San Antonio TX, where we stayed two nights.  We went to Sea World for one day and enjoyed the day very much.  My lil guy had a blast and the baby did very well.

From there we drove to Corpus Christi and stayed for two nights at a family members home.  This was good because it saved us on hotel room.  While in CC we visited my husbands grand parents on his fathers side who are 90 and live in a really nice retirement home.  I had never met them, so it was nice to be able to talk to them and spend some time there visiting.

Our second night there we went to have pizza with my mother in laws family.  I had not met any of them in person either.  It was quite an experience too I might add.  None of them came to my wedding they were all too busy for that event.

The next day we started our drive back home.  We stopped at a hotel in Salado TX and were planning on staying one night and keep going home but that is not what happened at all.  We were all so tired of driving, especially the kids we all decided to stay on additional night.  Ah only a small snag in that only one room was available crud.  Well we stayed in the same room for just one night thank goodness.

The next morning we drove home, a long drive mind you but we arrived.

We are going on a family vacation soon. I am amazed at how I have everything planned for packing. I have a list of items I am wanting to take printed and ready for me to check off.

I was remembering a few days ago how our last vacation was so disorganized and I didn’t want this one to be the same.