Evacuation Vacation (Part 2)

We're home!!! Ok so we decided to head back early. It looks like Gustav isn't to be so big and bad after all so we headed home to beat the traffic. Here's a summary of our vacation....

12:00 noon Monday: Finally finish packing up and hit the road. Me, Tyler, 2 kids, my mom, grandmother, my grandmother's friend and two dogs (I mean puppies.. we're not allowed to say the "d" word).

8ish Monday night: We arrive in Benbrook!! I'll spare you the details about that journey but let's just said the kids ended up colorful but were actuallly VERY VERY good! Much better than our last evacuation when Jace SCREAMED the entire way to Arkansas! Here's a picture of Jace when we arrived at the hotel. We finally got into bed after we all took showers. Jace and I slept in one bed and Tyler Mallori took the other. They threw a fit to sleep with us (ok with me) and we weren't in the mood to fight by that time!

7:30 Sunday morning: "Mommy's the sun is up" We go downstairs for breakfast. They had a waffle maker that made waffels in the shape of Texas! I was impressed! Then it was off to the zoo!! The whole crew went and the kids had a pretty good time. Towards the end, they got tired of walking and they were just hot! But at least we got to go do something fun!

2:00pm Sunday: We get back to the hotel and eat our ice cream from Braum's.. YUMMY! Then it's time for a much needed nap!

4:30pm Sunday: Wakey wakey! We change into our bathing suits. (I had prevsiously won the battle with Mallori over wearing it to bed) and it's off to the pool. This was a complete workout for Mommy! My kids are little fish and LOVE the water but that comes with it's disadvantages. The shallowest point of the water (other than the steps) was 4 foot. Neither one of them could touch bottom. This meant that I had to stay in arms reach of both of them and frequently let them hang on and rest. Not as easy as it sounds.. remember I said they were fish? They can both swim just far enough to get into trouble!

5:30pm Daddy gets back from site seeing with Gramma. He brings back cowboy hats!! The kids absolutely love them. Jace takes to saying "Howdy partner" and tipping his hat to any one who came up!

6:oopm We all split up and went out to eat. We went to the Macaroni Grill. First time I've ever been there. A must if you've never done it before! Then we went to see Ms. Kathy and give Lauren her soaking wet wallet... ooppss!

This morning it was on the road again at 10 and home by 5. Unpack and try to relax!!! I really don't like all of this hurricane mess!

Evacuation Vacation

Just in case anyone is wondering. We went ahead and ran away to Benbrook. It's close to Fort Worth. The kids are enjoying their vacation. We are probably headed back on Tuesday. We will see!! I'll post pics and more details on our vacation later!!

We survived!!

Well we did it! All of us survived one week of kindergarten... well almost! I want to bust out in a chorus of "I will survivie.." However, we had a little hiccup! The nurse called me today to tell me that Mallori was in her office "sucking her thumb and wailing around it." WOW!

She claimed to have an earache but I was suspecious. Mallori tries to hide what is really wrong behind "symptoms". Tommy ache, headache, ear ache... you get the picture. But I could hear her in the background so for the sake of the nurse (and Mrs. West) I sent Nana to go get her. Tyler actually ended up getting there first so he picked her up.

Turns out one of the little boys was picking on her. He was bossing her around. Apparently she can dish it out but can't take it! They discussed what she needs to do next time and hopefully, I won't get another phone call!

Other than that one little snafu, it seems like this week went well. She got smiley faces for every day this week!

Jace also got a little Mommy time. We went to the football game and since neither of us knew what was going on, we played little games to keep each other amused. We spent an entire quarter playing with a piece of tape... it's called improvising people!!

Now I'm going to kick two kids out of my bed so I can go to sleep. Trying to get a system in place to notify 200+ people of what we are doing when/if Gustav hits is extremely stressful and tiresome!!!