It’s 7:00 am and I sit in a dark living room. We want to leave as early as possible to drive 1.5 hours to Cool Mum’s family’s house. Too bad that the other two are asleep and nothing has been packed.
Our Thanksgiving trip proved that packing to travel is a momentous task that now may require using a shoehorn and Crisco to fit all of our stuff + Christmas presents into the little Japanese car. I’m not looking forward to doing all that, then unpacking, then packing again for my family’s, then unpacking, and then packing again to come home.
Y’know, last year when CM was pregnant, we were confident that this Christmas, the families would be coming to us. That’s how it works: first you get the baby, then you get the power, and then you get the families coming to you for Christmas. (if there’s any blog that can work Scarface into a baby post, it’s us!)
We were wrong. That’s what we get for acting all cool and “Oh, look at us! We can go to Europe with the baby!” It’s hard to argue that hitting the interstate is suddenly too much.
Well, we’ve got some packing to do. Safe travels and Godspeed.
(photo: Dr. Stephen Dann)
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Europe, eh? I think I have some AWSC catching up to do. That’s what holiday is for!
Godspeed…indeed.
Yeah, we need to post more about the trip over there. It was a lot of fun and there’s lots to tell. Merry Christmas!!
Merry Christmas to you, too, CD and CM.
We thought the same thing. I am still blessed to have all four of my grandparents at 24 years of age. It’s hard to start new traditions when we still get to go to grandma and grandpa’s for the holiday. I know a change will come at some point, but I will miss the “good ol’ days.”
You have to be strong – here is what we used with my family who lives 5 hrs away – “Now that we have kids we’d like them to have Christmas at home so that we can start our own family traditions. You are welcome anytime.” That was 4 years ago and it has worked well so far!
Matt–I like that idea. Curious how many times they took you up on the offer?
Ryan – I know what you mean. It will be weird that first time we do Christmas on our own. Hope the families will make the drive.
Matt – yeah, 5 hours is too much to drive with little ones. Unfortunately, we drove the guy 8 hrs to N. Carolina, so again, leverage is lost.