Shuffling off…

To BUFFALO!

Today at approximate 9AM all my kids and I will be packed into the Explorer and heading out East. 

Yes.  That’s me. Three kids. No husband.

Insane?  Possibly.  Excited?  A little bit (okay, a LOT). 

The drive will be tough, but I’m taking my time – and my camera.  I’m going to let the kids get out and run.  I’m not putting a time limit on this drive…”We made it in EIGHT hours!” will not ring through my grandmother’s house.  I’m hoping this will help their, and my, sanity.

We will have competing sounds as the girls watch hour upon hour of Dora on our (new – the old one broke right before the trip, of course *pout*) portable DVD player…while I listen to show tunes and Brandon plays DS…ALL.DAY.LONG. 

We will stop for puke-donald’s.  We will stop for potty breaks. 

And we will get to my Grandmother’s.

I haven’t been HOME in two+ years.  The last time we went, Angel was 2 months old, and Molly took her first steps at the park across the street from my grandmother’s.  My niece is turning 5 while we’re there, and we get to go to her party. 

I will go shopping for real food (Sahlen’s hot dogs, Webers mustard, REAL salt&vinegar chips, Loganberry,  placek and sponge candy).  I will have Anderson’s custard & Beef on ‘Wick.  I will eat my grandmother’s goulash (should i say yum? not feeling that one), and listen to her rant on every topic imaginable.

Archie isn’t coming…the one sad note about the trip.  I wish he could come and see my family again.  Celebrate my niece’s birthday with us.  I’m sure I will talk to him often, but only as often as work and life allow.

I will probably start experiencing computer withdrawals tomorrow.  Today I’m driving, and distracted by kids.  Tomorrow will be fun and exciting for a few hours, but as a work day for most of my family it will be quiet for us.  By 11AM I’m likely to be texting Jess left and right…but I will survive without a computer somehow.

I’ve preset posts for the weekend, because I won’t be home until Monday night.  I’ll take time to edit pictures, but I’ll post an update at the very least on Tuesday. 

Keep me in your thoughts today, though…as I drive 526 miles with 3 kids and just one little scrap of sanity to begin with.