Post-Vacation "Adventures"

It seems that I'm just barely catching my breath (knock on wood). The night we returned from our trip in May, D started a string of nights--6 pm to 8 am or so. Sleep all day, wake up around 4, study, go back to work. Repeat. It's a rough schedule for our family. If we're lucky, D gets about 15 minutes of face time with the kids each day. Ten days of that (fortunately not 6 weeks like last time!!).

Little discovery on the way back from the airport--A/C in the car was out. Bummer--it was just starting to get hot! We arrived home and discovered that our computer was dead. Poo! The next day or so we discovered that the A/C in the Suburban was out. Ugh! Then the Suburban died a few days after that. Grrr! And then our trusty Olds died too. Dang! And then my wonderful Chicco double umbrella stroller broke. $%*@!!! This made me almost completely homebound (with noisy kids and a husband trying to sleep all day) and also unable to do anything about our situation (I WAS able to go running with the kids in the triple jogger, but since it's too wide to fit on sidewalks or through doors, we couldn't go to the store or anywhere else). D was biking to work. We were climbing the walls. We wondered, "What's next?"

We made it through though, and D had a few days off during which he worked on getting the computer and cars fixed. After several rough weeks, we are now up and running again. We have both cars running and A/C working in both cars. And the computer works (currently, but we think its days are numbered). I was also able to find a new (to me) Chicco double umbrella stroller on Craigslist, yippeeee! Did you know that Chicco doesn't make double umbrellas anymore? SAD!!

My life is so full of adventure! I thought my life was full of adventure back in my single days when my weekends involved going backpacking or road-tripping or competing in a triathlon! I thought I was spontaneous back then, but look at me now--always a change of plans, always something unexpected, always a new adventure. FUN!