This morning, I stayed in bed until 8:00 am.  I felt a little bit bad about it since Eric got up at 6:00 am and was off to work at his normal time.  But only a little bit.  I worked hard all day yesterday without much of a break.  So I took my break this morning!

Anyway, this weekend we went to Buffalo to visit with my mom’s family.  It was a good time, but it meant two 6-7 hour drives and two nights in a hotel with two 7-month old babies.  I was a little nervous about that.  But we didn’t do so badly.  Erin did great on the drives and in the hotel.  Alex did okay on the drives (he screamed right before he fell asleep) and not well at all in the hotel.  He just doesn’t seem to sleep well in pack n plays.  Friday night we were up from 3:45 to 5:30 or so.  Saturday we were up from 10:30 to 3:00 when I finally got him to sleep on a blanket on the floor.  Somehow we’ll figure out something with him eventually.  And overall, they did really well.

As for the rest of the weekend, we got up leisurely on Friday so Eric could sleep in (since he was giving up his 3-day weekend for a trip to visit my family that he’s only met like twice) and we loaded up and left after the babies had lunch. We arrived about 7:00 pm, checked into the hotel, fed the babies their dinner, and then my parents watched the twins while we went to get dinner. 

Saturday, we had breakfast with Les and Rosie (my mom’s brother and wife). Then my mom and I did some quick running-around before it was time to feed the babies lunch and head to my Uncle Andy’s house, where we stayed for the rest of the day.  The kids swam in the pool and played on the ginormous swingset they have now.  And the adults just sat around, eating and talking.  The weirdest part was that my youngest cousins are now like 16-20 years old.  We had normal conversations with them…crazy!  I guess that means I’m old…

Also, for the family members who read this blog and wondered who was there, the attendees were: Andy & Joan, Marie and Ben (her husband) and Marie’s four kids; Les & Rosie, Phil and 3 grandkids (Britney (not spelled right), Damon, and Zion), Stacey and John and their 2 kids (plus their 3rd, due in 6 weeks); Glenda and Josh; Timmy and Luann, Emma, Luke, and Samantha (who came later); Sara and Danielle (and two of Danielle’s friends); Ruth and Kevin (plus his girlfriend and girlfriend’s mother) and Keith; Grandpa and Greta; Jim and Rachel; and our clan.

Saturday evening, we went back to the hotel to try to get the babies down at a “normal” time.  We got close.  Chris and I walked to the Bob Evans next door to get supper for everyone. Then Eric watched babies while I went down to watch Kelly and Holly swim for a bit.  And of course, we had a really bad night in the hotel that night.  So, we loaded up the car the next morning and headed out about 9:30 am.  We stopped for lunch just before we got to Ohio.  I drove from just above Cleveland the rest of the way home so Eric could rest.   And he eventually climbed into the backseat to entertain the babies for the last hour or so.

We got home about 4:00 last night.  We spent the evening readjusting the babies to being home and getting things put to rights again (or I did anyway).  But, thankfully, I was in bed about 9:30.  And Alex slept almost all night without too much fussing.  Lovely!

So today, I’ll be working (slowly) on getting the rest of our trip stuff put away.  And I might throw the laundry in to wash just so that’s done.  But mostly, we’re just going to be hanging out at home.  Very nice!

Happy Monday!