Exciting Parts of Our Vacation

The Ugly:

* Flight madness: We were supposed to leave on Saturday but rescheduled our flight on Friday to Sunday because we figured all flights were going to be cancelled from the incoming storm. We got to the airport and i realized I forgot Jackson's winter jacket. Great job! I freaked out and Jon says he's going back to get it. We are soo dumb. He gets back just in time to check in and we barely make it to the terminal on time to find out it isn't leaving for another 30 minutes. We get on the plan and sit there for TWO HOURS without moving away from the gate. We finally left, Jackson slept for a little of the flight and get to Chicago. We got delayed again for an hour and finally land at 10:40 at night. Worst part: they lost THREE of our bags, to include OUR CARSEAT!!!! They didn't have a loaner seat and all I can say is thank God for 24-hr Walmart! We had a three-hour drive ahead of us and needed a carseat! We didn't get home, home until 4 am. Phew....long day!!

* A set of family who came over failed to tell us that they all had the 24-hour flu over the last couple of days. Thanks. Jackson totally got sick. A puking almost two year old is not fun to deal with. I felt so bad for him. He woke up at about 11 and I went to check on him and I didn't know what was wrong at first. Then I smelled it. Then he said "mess, mess." He then threw up about oh, 10 more times and finally had his last bout at 2:30 in the morning but he just wanted water and we didn't give him any until about 4. He finally went to sleep at about 5. Long night again. Thankfully my mom has plenty of old towels because that's all we used for him to throw up in. Phew. Hopefully that is the last time we have to deal with that this season!

The Bad

*Long nights, busy days, and lots of food eating led to only working out once. Oh well. I think I kind of needed the break. I had planned on cross-country skiing a lot but no one wanted to go with me. Kind of bummed about that!

The Good!

* I ate a lot of food, as I wrote in the last post. I soo needed that!!! My aunt made my fave caramels and peanut butter balls. Oh joy! And my mom made these new almond triangle pastry things. Oh. My. God. I couldn't just eat one. I ate three each time :-)

* We saw plenty of family and I think I have turned into my Dad. I used to love having everyone over (when I was younger). But i think that was because I received LOTS of gifts from my aunts and uncles since they didn't have kids. But my Dad always liked the quiet. I'm totally digging the quiet now. I told Jon next year I just want it to be us three :-)

* Had lots of fun playing cards, watching movies and playing. Jackson had lots of fun with my brother. At some points my brother told me he needed his space :-) Jackson was pretty much his shadow the entire time we were there

Holidays are great but it is great to be back home in my own bed. But not so great doing the grocery shopping, cooking, etc. To top it off, Jackson didn't want to sleep on his own while we were at home and now he's spoiled. I tried to let him cry it out last night but he freakin' climbed out of the crib for the first time because he got so pissed off. I guess I should say he fell out of the crib since he didn't catch himself. Tried it again tonight but he climbed out again. Since he won't stay in I had no choice but to put his crib on the floor tonight so he wouldn't climb out. Seems to be working so far; he only cried for a few minutes and then he laid down on his bed.

Hope you guys had a great holiday break!!