Last year for Thanksgiving we drove to Arizona to Johnny's Nana's new vacation cabin in the mountains. So beautiful and so much fun. Bear was only 4 weeks old. It was such an adventure traveling with a baby WE had guardianship over. Usually there are babies around us everywhere but this time it was "ours". So fun to look over and see a "little cargo" that is all yours to take care of.
Two days before we left I got real bad sick with a virus and of course...the Big "D". I could barely take care of Bear. I had to call my aunt from next door to come and take care of him at times because I was too weak and faint to do so.. and here we were driving to AZ. 18-19 hours the whole way up there with a "new" baby. We had just gotten him 3 weeks prior so I had already gotten him on a good schedule of wake and sleep time. That helped out a lot once we got there. It didn't really do much for the road b/c we constantly had to stop to feed him or change him and of course burp him anyway. This year I am thankful that he doesn't need a diaper change quite as often and he doesn't need us to get him out to burp him and he doesn't drink bottles so that will be easier not traveling with lots of bottles and tons of formula. Just hand him a sippy of milk and/or juice or water. And we can stop and feed him whenever and wherever we stop to eat.
It is so beautiful up there. We climbed the mountain last year with Bear in a Snugli... You could see out over the village miles and miles away. Bear really enjoyed the outdoors. Although it was Thanksgiving it was still pretty warm during the day. But at night it got cold enough for the fireplace... ooohhh so warm and toasty. We settled in and would watch movies and have fun junk food and snuggle. Then the day before Thanksgiving Johnny's Nana and Aunt came to join us for the duration of the week. Nana fell in love with Bear the moment she saw him. It was so much fun watching her interact with him and seeing him giggle at her and snuggle with her.
We will be leaving on a Saturday and coming home on that following Saturday. It would be nice to travel in something larger than our Camry but at least the gas mileage will be great. Johnny told me that we can sell our Jeep Wrangler and our Camry and get a tahoe or this infinity SUV over here by us but I cannot bear to part with our Wrangler. I don't know why... I have never been able to. There have been several people offer good money for it and I can't let go. maybe something will happen before we go in the case of getting a bigger vehicle but for now I am plenty fine with going in the Camry. It could be worse I understand...Ü.
For now I will leave you with warm thoughts of a cool Thanksgiving. I do ask that you will all be praying; we have to get permission to travel out of state with Bear still (given that he is not adopted by then; we don't think it will happen before Christmas but God is a God of MIRACLES). There should be no reason that the judge would decline but you never know...
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4 comments:
WILL be praying! Gods in the business of making miracles. ;)
I cant believe some of those pics of Bear! So tiny! He has grown sooo much!
I love the blog, the new layout and picture! Your so...so...ARTISTIC!!
Love you!
Tressa
ummm, yeah, things could be A LOT worse as far as having a smaller vehicle. I don't even want to hear any complaining. geez what's wrong with you, i'd give all i have for a camry right now. maybe we should trade for a little while...then you'd be in love with your car. haha.
Have a great trip. Good luck traveling w/the little one!
yeah yeah, you knew I would explode in distress from that comment didn't ya? hahaha.
why do husbands get to make the final decisions?
i wish someone had a car they wanted to give away.
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