Where to start.
It is FALL BREAK – Yeah! Oh, wait… I have to clean house, attend a family in-law birthday party and experience baby’s first night out!
I managed to get the living room to sparkle the family drove up toward the Cincinnati area for a surprise birthday party. I do love my in-laws though. I even packed along my EDUC 688 and 685 books with me for the 2 hour drive up there. Between the kids, radio, and hubby, I wasn’t going to get any reading done. An attempt was made, but after a few near hits and misses, my heart was beating so fast, I couldn’t concentrate to read. It is amazing what all people can do while driving and speeding at 80 down an Interstate…even if they are continuously crossing the lines and cutting everyone off. – Have to love the holiday weekend. To make it worse, they were all young female drivers, so my husband made sure to mention that. The birthday party we were at was my brother-in-laws, which he is a police officer; therefore a majority of the guests were male officers. Of course they got a kick out of it…all is fair in love and war…the wives had snide remarks in return.
Due to there being so many people visiting for the party, we decided to rent a room. Baby’s first time out of the house. She screamed until 6:00 am in the morning. I’m surprised management wasn’t called on us. My husband went down in the morning to get breakfast and someone was requesting a different room, but we don’t know if that was our fault. When I retrieved ice at 12:30 am, there were two adolescents running up and down the 2nd story hallway. This was a newly remodeled hotel with two wedding parties staying in it that night that we new of. It was total chaos. I did think about how we take technology for granted early this day, at check in. My hubby thought it best we stay in the car, because it was raining, and the lobby was packed. He went to check in. He had to go some distance to check-in due to a silver mini-van blocking the road. The mini-van had a family in it that all needed assistance due to their weight, but the hotel put their rooms on the 2nd floor (no elevators). Rooms had to be changed around. We ended up with a room on the 2nd floor, at the very end. A nice spot, but caring everything up the stairs was a nightmare. I pulled a muscle on my left shoulder while carrying the baby in her carseat up the stairs. No big deal. I have done it a million times over the summer. I just haven’t had to carry the carseat that much since the school year has been in.
Needless to say, we were able to visit with the in-laws for about 6 hours on Saturday. We slept for 2 of those hours. My husband and I were exhausted. Eventually we started the 2 hour trek home. I managed to summon up the energy to cook dinner and we all sat down and watched a family movie together “Inkheart”. I loved reading the book. I think the 2nd book is better than the first one. Just my opinion though.
