Can I form a coherent thought with Dora the Explorer in the background?
Our vacation was amazing, wonderful, slightly tiring but energizing, and fun. Our brother-in-law has a part-time job at Disney, so he was able to make some “backstage magic” happen a couple of times.
One of my favorite moments, though, was the airport experience on the way home. Mamala had left Monday at 2:55, which is when our flight was on Tuesday. Or so I thought. I discovered at 1:10, in the rental car shuttle, that our flight left at 1:25.
CRAP!
I called Mom and had her look up the other flight times. We discovered that our flight was delayed about 20 minutes… but Mom said it had taken her 40 minutes to get through security the day before.
We decided to go for it, so we gave the girls a pep talk in the shuttle—OK, we’re going to need to run, we’re not going to have time for stopping, whining, etc… if we all work together we can do this!
And we did! The security line was non-existent, which made the difference. Still, we had to run while pushing two strollers and carrying a car seat and booster. After making it through security we threw our shoes into the basket under the stroller and ran barefoot. Must have been quite the picture.
Like I said, one of my favorite memories of a memorable trip.
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M is close to being potty trained. So we’ll be shopping for big-girl underwear today.
She’s a riot. She is kissing her knees right now. ????
J is crawling and cutting tooth number SEVEN. Good Lord.
C is getting ready for kindergarten. Hard to believe.
R is out of town until Wednesday for a training, so Mamala will come tonight for sleepover to help out.
I am dealing with some turkeys right now.
That is all for the moment.
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Running through the airport barefoot, with all that gear? OJ Simpson had nothing on y’all.
and I’m angry at the turkeys today, now that it’s fully sunk in.
Don’t let those turkeys ruin your day. Remember that they are the ones served up on a platter.
Regarding coherent thoughts and Dora:
Earplugs.
…at least it isn’t Barney the Purple Dinosaur. Glad it was wonderful, and you survived the sprint. Re the turkeys: Illegitimi non carborundum.
What a wonderful image I have of the sprint through the airport! Oh do I wish I could have seen that. Glad that you actually made it.
I prayed for you as I ate my turkey sandwich at lunch!
crazy how we both had weird plane things.
I’ve run barefoot through an airport before. Don’t look at the bottom of your feet after you do that. Yuck.
Seven teeth! and kindergarten!
Sorry about the turkeys. I hope they’ve gotten better.
love that picture
and for once yay to delayed flights eh? (grin)
The image of you doing this is a riot. Esp the barefoot stroller push through security!
Have to tell you I’ m at the denomination’s conferecne place tht rhymes with Concrete and ran into one of the guys who tutored Greek school when you did. :0 Happy times to be here.
After a toug hday of class, he addressed me as “Rev. Grace” and told me I should get used to hearing it. I remidned him that this small act of kindness menat the world to me.
Y’all were great tutors, BTW!
Hope you have some uneventfull time with R gone.
RM, I tagged you for the PresbyMeme — although you may have already done it. The rules etc are at my place!