Notes from the Road

The grand trip has kicked off. The Grand Trip of Family Togetherness.  In other words, 7 of us all in our van together for 10 hours.  We met up for May's concert.  Then to kick off, we loaded our van with Grandma & Grandpa's stuff at the peak of low blood sugar.  And headed off to Panera. Though it was a challenge, I'm happy to say that those first five minutes with all of us in the van went okay. And then we'd fueled up with dinner so life could run smoothly at least until the first call of dying-of-thirst. (-: All in together. We fit without luggage rack bag. Going to get to our hotel about 11.

We left late in the day, after May 9.11 performed in a concert that was the end of her week of youth choir camp.  So we hadn't really gone far before we were approaching and passing bedtime.  Not surprisingly, the day had been hectic and exhausting, so Rose 3.7 was tired.  Spitz and Grandpa were singing to her.  They sing lots of folk songs and silly kids songs.  They started in on some classic about the hole in the bottom of the sea. You know, the one filled with a log that has on it a bump and then on the bump is a frog, with a wart....  Ruth 7.2 yelled, "reality check!"

Rose says, "I'm tired!" over and over in a completely unreasonable tone. Tell her to close her eyes and rest. She says, "I'm still tired." Grandpa and Spitz sing. She says, "I'm still tired." Keep singing. 10 pm and she's holding on due to a late afternoon nap. And Grandpa is still singing. And now the complaints of I'm tired are straight out yells. That's a good sign she will soon drop off. Goodnight, lovey.