Wild Week in Review

Monday, I hurriedly packed five people from their 3-month stay in Massachusetts, also managing squirrely kids while Justin worked several hours and then we ate a hurried lunch, loaded the car and kids and went most of the way to NY for the airport, spent the night in hotel and had a blast playing in the pool until our teeth chattered, then

Tuesday morning we drove to LaGuardia and said a sweet farewell, then I drove home the 3.5 hours, went grocery shopping, and had to stay up after midnight to take care of getting Audrey as much milk as possible before the cutoff hour for the anesthesia rules, because the next morning

Wednesday we drove 1.5 hours each way to Boston Children's for her dilation and scope (in case you missed it, her throat has finally stayed open--HALLELUJAH--and they are talking about us taking a "picnic" to Utah maybe early February, remember we NICU grads never say the H word beforehand, it's bad luck), her procedure finished up in the middle of rush hour traffic so I went to see my friends at the Yawkey house to wait it out and get caught up on the news of all the long term patients I've grown to love, then drove home with the heat turned off in the car and chewing strong peppermint gum to help stay awake, to arrive around 10:30 pm, needing to get up

Thursday and start deep cleaning up the house (finally clearing the dishes from Monday's lunch then moving on to three months of accumulated evidence of five active and creative children), plus clean out the minivan and return it to Enterprise where I met the sweet wonderful lady from church who took me to her house and lent me her extra car for as long as I need it the next few weeks, then I filled it with gas and drove 3 hrs to Rhode Island and back to pick up a specialized prescription for Audrey, got home and started organizing some of the piles of things that need to be sorted until I could no longer stay awake, around 1:30am because

Friday I needed to get the whole house clean (thankfully baby girl took a nice long nap) in time for the owner's realtor to show the house at 3pm, at which point I dutifully vacated (at 2:59) and went to watch the ocean waves and eat a treat of eggplant fries and clam chowda. If you had seen the house last night (think post-apocalypse), and could see it tonight, you would all fall OVER I tell you, it is shining and sparkling that much. In fact, just to show my solidarity with your oohing and ahhing, I think I'll fall over too. And stay there for a few hours.