Just Simply Holly

WOW!! Talk about a LOOOOOOOONG weekend! Not bad long, just long, PERIOD! Hubby and I hit the road to go get the kids around 3:00 AM Saturday morning. We had actually planned on leaving earlier, but we didn’t get to bad until 10 PM, so we didn’t get up until 1 AM and had to run to the store to pick up a few things before we hit the road.

The trip out went BEAUTIFUL! There was minimal traffic for better than half of the trip and because it was dark, it was also nice and cool, so using the A/C in the van wasn’t even close to necessary! It wasn’t until we got near Pittsburgh, PA before we hit any “real” traffic. But a little over 8 hours after hitting the road, we arrived safely at our destination!

Poor hubby though, he got out of the van, told the kids HI, gave them hugs and kisses, then went into the house to use the restroom, sat down on the couch and immediately fell asleep…LOL! He was TOAST and we all decided to just let him sleep while I sat with the kids and their older sister and her boyfriend to talk about some of the “events” of the past month that caused some fairly significant stress in their sisters life. The conversation got heated a little a few times, but over all, I think it went fairly well! I had a feeling that having both kids for a full month was going to be more than she honestly thought it would be, but she said everything would be fine. We both ended up right, it was a little too much for her, but everything did turn out fine!

“IF” the kids go out next summer, things are going to go a little differently. One of the kids will fly out, alone, and stay for 2 weeks, then hubby and I will drive out with the other kid for a long weekend and when we leave we will bring the first child home and leave the 2nd child. Then, two weeks later, the 2nd child will fly home.

Anyway, we made it home, safe and sound after nearly 20 hours of driving in a 40 hour time frame! The kids are glad to be home, they missed their dogs and their “stuff”….LOL! Of course, they came home to their “stuff”, as well as the rest of the house, being MUCH cleaner than it was when they left a month ago…LOL!

I’m not feeling very well, about half way home I broke out into a cold sweat, my forehead was ice cold, but I was sweating HORRIBLE! So I’ll be spending the evening just chilling out and taking it easy, in the hopes of getting to bed early tonight!