No more days

Finally, it is the eve of our departure.

I found at least a few of my lists and actually got some of them done. Okay, I got everything finished except the dishes. Hold on, I think Erin just ate a receipt. Yup, all gone. Hope it wasn't important. (oh, and the picture? this time it's not dirt, it's her first Oreo. There's no turning back now.)

Some good news! A car was seen going very slowly past our house and possibly writing down the number of the real estate agent! It had out of state plates (Texas). Why not move to Westville and into our house! Bring it! It was an older man. I am expecting to hear an offer on the house while we are gone or when we get back. Really really really hoping and expecting. It's hard to visit the family and then leave to go home. So far away. And it's hard to come back to the job that is increasingly frustrating and fruitless.

Erin has just hacked up a spitball. I guess the receipt didn't taste good. Ew.

So Ian has been crackling like a sparkler on the 4th of July all day. You know how you can whirl them really fast and almost write your name? Well, Ian was literally running around in circles a lot of the day. Making Erin dizzy so she'd fall over. Making me frazzled because there was just so much craziness! Especially when I was trying to clean up and to pack suitcases and he was just scattering stuff all over.

Friday I had to take Erin to the doc's and it turned out she has a small ear infection in each ear! We've got at least 24 hours of meds in her, but I am really praying that our flights tomorrow will be quiet. For everyone's sake.

And I will be sure to give a report to everyone on how our experience is. Chris is a police officer and he is going to take a class, so he has to take his firearm. Firearm + airport =? We'll find out. Hopefully we won't all be bodyslammed by national security troops. We did everything the airline said to clear it, but we're still nervous.

That being said, I will not have access to a computer to a couple of weeks, so I'll be on hiatus until we get back!

So have a great May and we hope to have lots of pictures to post when we get back (except for Chris, since he'll be in class the entire time. :( He's already said about 40 times that the next vacation is HIS vacation. So it looks like we'll have to do whatever he says; good thing we trust him.)

Got the bathing suits? check. Got my sunscreen? check. Got the kids? we'll check that off in the morning. Got sleep? getting there. Ok, we're off to Florida!