Now I'm grumpy!
I spent two hours last night typing up the last two weeks of Sunday Snippets. I even saved the post a few times along the way and when I went to post it today it posted the title, but there was no text. Everything I typed inside was gone, so here's attempt number two.
August 14-20
I spent two hours last night typing up the last two weeks of Sunday Snippets. I even saved the post a few times along the way and when I went to post it today it posted the title, but there was no text. Everything I typed inside was gone, so here's attempt number two.
August 14-20
- I hauled three children, four pieces of carry-on luggage and two car seats through the airport by myself, so that we could go on a family vacation to Houston before Dylan started school. We were an hour early and our flight was an hour and a half delayed so we had lots of free time to sit in the terminal. But once it was time to board the plane my luggage decided to spontaneously explode. The zipper broke and all the contents fell out. A very kind women stopped and held Isaac for me so I could stuff my belongings back in and try to get the zipper to stay shut. She even helped me load my kids up in the plane, she was an angel! Thankfully the kids slept most of the flight.
- After the whole flight ordeal was over and on the car ride to Mr. Giovannoni's apartment the kids were being super silly and Isaac was laughing his little head off. There's something about babies laughing that brings me such joy. It felt so good to be together as a family!
- Alivia's first statement when we got out of the car (in Texas) was "What is that smell"? We laughed and laughed and told her it was just Texas. Dylan followed up by asking, "Why is it still hot and the sun is NOT up"?
- Before we entered Mr. Giovannoni's apartment, we instructed our children to walk softly on the floor and to not scream or fight so that we wouldn't disturb anyone. We hadn't been there for even a half hour before there was a knock on the door. Apparently his (childless) downstairs neighbor had turned us into management for being to noisy! I knew we were in for it after that because my kids weren't even acting up. The next day this "neighbor" knocked on our door and told me he was a reasonable person, and we were being so disruptive, so if we could please keep it quiet. I tried to explain to him that I had three children one of which was a toddler and that I was doing my best to keep them quiet. I explained we were just here for a few days and then we would be gone. I told him during the day I was car-less, but I'd do my best to keep them quiet while we were at home. Despite my best efforts Mr. Giovannoni's neighbor continued to knock and complain and pretend he was a reasonable person! He really was a trip ruin-er for sure! I spent every second we were at the apartment, threatening, scolding and putting my kids in time out for moving or breathing. It was AWFUL.
- When we weren't living in fear of making noise and bothering the neighbor, we spent our time playing in the pool at Mr. Giovannoni's apartment complex, it really was fun.
- Isaac slipped/tripped and fell on the corner of his daddies glass coffee table and split his eye brawl open. We had our first experience with our new health insurance and an Urgent Care Facility down there. Two stitches later Isaac was up and running and looking for a new way to hurt himself.
- On Friday night we took the kids to a fun restaurant/petting zoo. Only in Texas! My kids thought it was a riot to eat a mouthful of food and run off and chase the peacocks and look at the one eyed horse. I would have never ever went there if someone had told me about it, but I'm glad we went it was a unique dining experience!
- Mr. Giovannoni took Dylan to a special Star Wars exhibit at the Houston Children's Health Museum. He really enjoyed it, but I think the kids favorite part of our trip to the museum was the 4-D movie we went to see called planet you.
- We went to a place called Pappadeux's for dinner and tried some fried alligator.
- Sunday was a bitter sweet day for me. Bitter, because I hated going home, not knowing when we would be together again. Bitter because we were no closer to finding a home then before we came. Bitter because I don't want to be a single mother anymore and I don't like being alone. Bitter because I had to haul all my kids and belongings back through the airport by myself so we could go home. Sweet because I was tired of being a grump to my kids. Sweet, because I didn't have to deal with Mr. "Reasonable" any more!
- We stopped by the Houston temple and let the kids look around before we headed off to the airport. Dylan had hoped and hoped he'd see a lizard while he was in Texas. Unfortunately all he found was a dead shriveled up one by the pool. Just before we left the temple, Alivia spotted a green lizard on one of the temple trees and showed it to Dylan. He was ecstatic! He tells everyone he had a miracle happen at the Houston temple, because he saw a lizard there. I can't help but love that kid, it makes me smile and laugh every time I hear him tell everyone of his Houston temple miracle.
- Dylan told me repeatedly that he was super glad to be going home to Utah because he really loves cold nights, not hot nights like Texas'.
- Thank you Aunt Jennell for driving us to the airport. And thank you Grandma Ward for picking us up at 11:00 at night.
- Our trip to Texas was truly an adventure. I can't wait to finally get settled there!
- Dylan got to meet his new school teacher. She seemed really nice.
- Dylan got to ride a bus to school for the very first time, and he loves it!
- For the first time in what seems like forever, there is peace and quiet in Grandma's home. Alivia has no one to tease and fight with while Dylan's at school, and I'm enjoying every second of it.
- Aunt Cozy, Uncle Eric and the kids and I went to the pool for one last dip. Dylan ran over and got in line to jump of the high dive, I was so certain he was going to get up there and chicken out, but boy was I wrong, he dived right off. He spent almost the entire time we were there jumping off the high dive. He did an excellent job of swimming too, for only having one set of lessons last year. I think he is an excellent swimmer. He even got his mother and Aunt Cozy to jump off the high dive too. He asked me how I liked it afterwards and I told him I was old because it just hurt me everywhere. He then told me maybe if I didn't have so much extra "skin", it wouldn't hurt so bad. Oh the honesty of a child.
