Our Trip

We just got back from spending Christmas in California with the families. It was soooo wonderful. My heart hurts to go back and be with family. Hubby and I (well really just Hubby), decided that we would save money if we drove the 1200 miles over 2 days. We would have had to purchase 4 tickets since J turned two while we were down. The trip down was a breeze. We took the minivan with gifts for the kids, all of us and the dog. We packed a cooler and a DVD player (but forgot the charger) and some games for the kids to play with. We drove from 11pm on the 20th until 3pm the next day and then stayed the night in Stockton and made the rest of the trip the next day – total time in the car 22 hours. The drive home was a different story. We were packed to the limit with gifts so there was little wiggle room in the van. The morning we were supposed to leave J got the throwing up flu, she puked pretty much the whole way home anytime she tried to eat or drink. We also we pummeled by the worst storm to hit the West coast in 5 years. In some of the places we traveled they had winds of 165 mph. And for some reason the dog decided to pee on my seat twice when we stopped to change diapers and get food. We left at Midnight on January 4 and didn't stop until 4pm, and then we got up at 7am and drove until 9 pm – total drive time 30 hours. YiPes! Needless to say I NEVER want to drive it again. All in all with food, lodging and gas I don't think it saved us any money. But it was nice to have our own car while we were down.

Aside from the hellish drive home the trip was amazing. We both miss family soooo much, it was hard to leave. I got physically ill when we had to go. Now we are back and in the swing of things. School started for both of us again on the 7th. Baby M has started sleeping through the night, J and L are going to bed at 8:30 now (we still have to lay with them, but that isn't not so bad). Once we got home L and Baby M started throwing up, but it only lasted for each of them for about 24 hours. Baby M has started rolling over. Yay.. can't wait for him to sit up.