Today was our first day back from our whirlwind traveling the past two weeks. It has been a little bittersweet to be back. In a lot of ways it's nice to be home, sleep in our own beds, let the kids roam around the house without following them everywhere worrying about them destroying someone else's things. It's also great to see friends and catch up with the people we haven't seen since we've been gone. But as Matthew put it today "Home is not fun." We do a lot of fun things around here, but it isn't quite the same as doing fun things somewhere else. A lot of the things we did on our trip were pretty normal, things like going to the park. Though going to a new park brings new exploration and adventure and compared to that our normal parks just don't seem as fun. We went to a wonderful indoor water park, but I had a hard time getting them excited about going swimming tomorrow. Matthew said "The rec center is not a fun pool."
So maybe we were a little spoiled and had a lot of fun on our trip. There weren't many things I can complain about. Everyone keeps commenting on how brave or crazy I was to do the cross country trip with two toddlers. But I wouldn't have changed a thing, and I must say the boys were GREAT! I couldn't have gotten better behavior out of them if I bribed them with candy :) We all had a wonderful time. And I would turn around and go again tomorrow if we could!
We're home now, and Matthew is doing his same "And then what?" questions. What are we going to do today, and then what, and then what. My answers did not impress him, even though we did have a fun morning at storytime, the park and out for lunch. Being home there are dishes to be done, laundry, cleaning... and while we somehow must have done all these things on our trip, I don't remember those parts very much ;)
The staying quiet in the morning didn't go so well this morning, but we'll find out when Matt and Sarah wake up how much we disturbed them. Matthew knew they were home, he has put together that when the cars are here they are here too, and did go in wanting Mommy to play with him. Maybe we'll have to start hiding the cars ;) Actually... one could fit in the garage now! So now I'm starting to sit down with a calendar and figure out what the next few weeks look like for us. I'm hoping to make a few shorter trips, like up to Omaha to go to the indoor waterpark and Zoo with my sister and nephew. Hopefully some Topeka and Kansas City trips with friends from around here, and who knows what all we can come up with.
Time to make being home just as fun as vacation!
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