Everything was going so good until those apron strings tied to my youngest were stretched taut and then I had to let go. You know, it's really different when it's your youngest and she's going soooo far way for soooo long. What was I thinking?! Oh yeah, that amazing opportunity to experience a different culture, lifestyle, and a pop of personal growth. Plus, I needed a few more gray hairs, right?
I'm pretty sure the horrible, barfy migraine I had started with a bout of anxiety, followed by the barometric pounding to confirm rumors of cooler weather and chance of rain. The result: 1000 mg ibuprofin, migraine pills, anti-nausea pills, 3 kittys curled up with me, and an entire day gone. You'd think 24 hrs of sleep would feel better than that. The cats looked rested though.
Now I am about to go upstairs to the bedrooms of my travelling children, whose definition of clean is pretty far from mine. I have to make up for a lost day, but the good news is I still have time to get everything ready for our guest. Good news for Monday, when Tib will be here but Gib won't (this may be the only time I get to refer to them that way; Mariah said NO WAY when I suggested we call them that) -- the kid next door is going to play basketball, xbox, skateboarding, and basically hang out with Thibault for a few hours. I will provide pizza or subway. After that, I'm going to have Thibault help me rearrange some things upstairs and move Gib's drum set. He can put it in Mariah's room temporarily, or, if possible, we'll find a new location for an armoire and a table and move the drums to the bonus room. Aussie should like that. I can just seem him now climbing in, on, and under it all. Knowing that cat, he'll learn that he can wake Indie up by bopping the snare drum.
Mariah is spending the day in Lafayette and then heading into Chicago to board their plane to France. My palms just got sweaty typing that. They will take off at 6 pm. Right now they are at an Indiana wind farm. She says there are thousands of wind turbines. At first I thought she liked it, but received the following text :
"FYI, don't go to Indiana. Despite it having the worlds largest wind farm, it stinks and everywhere looks like those small abandoned villages.... none of us like it" Hahaha, I LOVE that girl!!! Sorry to all our Indiana relatives :)
3 comments:
Félicie says NO WAY, too! She said her brother would hate that!!!
Also, Indianna is ashamed of itself :), we stopped over 3 times to get a postcard for Lillion and they didnt have any!!!
Mariah didn't get to do the fun things in Lafayette. They would have liked the water park or they could have visited the store Von's at Purdue. It sounds like they were in Brookston area where the wind farms are. It's a very small town, no wonder they didn't like it. Have fun Mariah on the rest of your trip!
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