Sunday, Monday and Tuesday
Sunday was pretty quick for me - I slept through the morning and into the early afternoon because of the benadryl that the ER wanted me on for the next several days. Matt skipped golfing with his dad in order to go get my prescriptions, and ended up logging several hours at work instead (oops). We went over to Matt's cousin Erin's house for the evening's festivities, where we saw pretty much everybody, including Grandma Ann (Peggy's mom). She's really not all there anymore, which wasn't a surprise, because she got moved into the memory care wing at her nursing home a couple of months ago. She sat at the table with several of us, and every 2-3 minutes would ask me, "Now, who's your husband?" Matt was sitting next to her for most of those questions and would tell her, "Thirteen years Grandma, you were at the wedding!" One time she even came close to not recognizing Matt as being her grandson Matt.
The kids had a great time trick or treating with the rest of the offspring in that age group. Maddie had decided to be "Dead" for Halloween, and Nate was Woody from Toy Story. We'd dyed her hair black last Wednesday with a 6 week wash out dye (which, hilariously Peggy never noticed) and were going to put white makeup all over her face, neck and arms. I got her face done while we were there at Erin's but she hated it, so we wiped it off. I had teased her hair quite a bit, and she was wearing black and white striped shirt and tights, so she went as a Jailbird. As with the hair, I think that if she'd let me finish the makeup before she looked at it, I think she'd have liked it, but self-consciousness set it REALLY hard this weekend (I'm wondering about the timing of this in proximity to the Doctor's appt last Monday when the doctor hinted that she was chubby, and wants her to eat differently - not that she's never like that, but this was worse than normal). While I'd been teasing her hair (back at Peggy and Jim's house), she kept smoothing it back down and then saying she didn't like it. I finally got her to stop looking at the mirror and let me finish before she decided - and she ended up liking it.
Monday I took the kids to go meet a friend from work (yes, I did at one point work for a living!) for lunch at Wendy's. It was good to see her - it's been about 6 years, she had a daughter whom I've never met that's in Kindergarten already! Oy.
Went back, packed up everything and Peggy took us in to the airport hotel for the night. We chilled out for the evening, and ended up getting up an hour earlier than we'd planned, so it was a leisurely morning as well. Can I just say what a BAD idea of Radisson's I find it that they have full/double sleep number beds in the rooms? It's a friggin' air mattress people, you put two bodies on it and it SUCKS!! Maddie kept rolling into me and making me hot (there was a problem with the A/C as well), so I really didn't sleep very well.
Flight home was fine, no real problems. Nate's nose was running pretty badly so we gave him benadryl, and he slept for about 3 of the 5 hour flight. Normally that wouldn't have been ANY problem, but there was a lot of turbulence that started over Kansas and didn't let up until West Virginia, so the flight attendants wanted Nate buckled into his own seat, but HE wanted to be in contact with (read: ON) me, and whined loudly whenever he stirred and noticed he wasn't in my lap anymore.
The kids had a great time trick or treating with the rest of the offspring in that age group. Maddie had decided to be "Dead" for Halloween, and Nate was Woody from Toy Story. We'd dyed her hair black last Wednesday with a 6 week wash out dye (which, hilariously Peggy never noticed) and were going to put white makeup all over her face, neck and arms. I got her face done while we were there at Erin's but she hated it, so we wiped it off. I had teased her hair quite a bit, and she was wearing black and white striped shirt and tights, so she went as a Jailbird. As with the hair, I think that if she'd let me finish the makeup before she looked at it, I think she'd have liked it, but self-consciousness set it REALLY hard this weekend (I'm wondering about the timing of this in proximity to the Doctor's appt last Monday when the doctor hinted that she was chubby, and wants her to eat differently - not that she's never like that, but this was worse than normal). While I'd been teasing her hair (back at Peggy and Jim's house), she kept smoothing it back down and then saying she didn't like it. I finally got her to stop looking at the mirror and let me finish before she decided - and she ended up liking it.
Monday I took the kids to go meet a friend from work (yes, I did at one point work for a living!) for lunch at Wendy's. It was good to see her - it's been about 6 years, she had a daughter whom I've never met that's in Kindergarten already! Oy.
Went back, packed up everything and Peggy took us in to the airport hotel for the night. We chilled out for the evening, and ended up getting up an hour earlier than we'd planned, so it was a leisurely morning as well. Can I just say what a BAD idea of Radisson's I find it that they have full/double sleep number beds in the rooms? It's a friggin' air mattress people, you put two bodies on it and it SUCKS!! Maddie kept rolling into me and making me hot (there was a problem with the A/C as well), so I really didn't sleep very well.
Flight home was fine, no real problems. Nate's nose was running pretty badly so we gave him benadryl, and he slept for about 3 of the 5 hour flight. Normally that wouldn't have been ANY problem, but there was a lot of turbulence that started over Kansas and didn't let up until West Virginia, so the flight attendants wanted Nate buckled into his own seat, but HE wanted to be in contact with (read: ON) me, and whined loudly whenever he stirred and noticed he wasn't in my lap anymore.