Good Like a Medicine

I said we wouldn’t do it, but it was inevitable. We have tried to cram every possible bit of fun and memorable activity into the last two days. We have made a series of trade-offs but still find ourselves pretty tired on the last evening of Emily’s visit. Although I know we are the most fun family on earth (ha), I can tell Ethan and Caroline will be quite excited to have their own beds to offer them a good night’s sleep when they return home tomorrow. Not to mention Emily and Brian will be happy to have their own bed, too!

Eric was so sweet to stay home this afternoon and early evening and keep all of the children while we went out for a few hours. We had some crazy and fun times. At one point we were talking about one of our favorite restaurants that we used to each visit in FL, and I said, “Ah, the oriental salad. That was the first meal I had there, and I remember it like it was yesterday. And although it never made it out of my mouth, the next immediate thought was, “Oh my - Where were the kids?” It took me a second to realize that I was thinking about a day when I was pregnant with my first child. Ha! It’s true that once you are a mom, you sometimes forget that there was a time in your life that they weren’t there yet.

We are hopefully stopping the picking up and packing tonight for a few hours to play Scrabble and talk Sola Scripturawith Eric. By the way, we played “Phase 10″ the other night, and I knew everyone would be happy to know that I came back and beat him fair and square. I was stinkin’ up the game for about 4 phases, and then it got really close between the three of us. Who knew?