Sunday, December 30, 2007

Our long journey home begins...

hopefully around 5:00am tomorrow morning. We have already loaded the car. We will be up bright and early to trek home. I pray for good weather, healthy kids, and happy, patient parents. :-) I feel really bad for my parents. Their pump to their well broke tonight so we are WITHOUT water! Yuck! We brought up buckets of water from the lake to at least flush the toilets, but we won't be able to shower before we leave. Ryan had just showered tonight before the pump broke, but the kids and I are feeling pretty grimy. I am looking forward to a long, hot shower when we get home tomorrow night. Brent and Lindsey are going to leave tonight and go back to Raleigh so they don't have to deal with it, but they aren't going to leave until we go to bed. Brent, Nana, Cobe and Brooks are playing a game of Scrabble right now in the kitchen. Lindsey, Papa and Ryan are watching the Patriots/Giants game, and Sadie has already hit the sack. I am letting the boys stay up super late tonight in hopes that they will want to sleep a lot on our trip home. I will post so many great pictures from our trip when I get home in the next day or two.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my sister-in-law Michele!!!!!! We celebrated her birthday last night. She is thirty-something years old today! :-) She, Jeff and Miles got here on Thursday and stayed until lunch time today. My kids had such fun with their cousin Miles. Brooks was longing for him tonight while looking at his picture.

Off to find some bottled water so I can brush my teeth and wash my hands before bed. :-(
So long until we are back in Michigan!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

AND....the saga continues.We don't have water here at the lake, and Brent just called from Raleigh and said the power is out at our townhouse there! I hope that's temporary. Prayers are with you all for a safe, uneventful journey home. We had a GREAT Christmas!
Mom

Jennifer said...

Welcome Home when you get here. Your house looks normal. If you need anything when you get home let me know.

Lynette said...

I totally missed this one somehow (although, prob b/c you posted like 5 at once). Yuck... I didn't even ralize you had issues with water! Hopefully that is taken care of soon (or by now I should say) for your parents sake!

Michele said...

We had so much fun with you here! Miles could not get enough of his cousins. Thanks for not telling everyone how old I really am.