We’re in the land of mega-chains and drive-throughs! (A.K.A. the rest of the United States outside of Nantucket.)
Saturday morning, we were on the first ferry off the island at 6:30 am. After an adrenaline filled morning of, “oh my gosh it’s 10 to six, we have to go!”, we had a leisurely 2 hour ride to Hyannis walking around the boat with a teddy bear and stopping to say “dagda” every time we saw a dog. Or, at least somebody did.
Then, we drove 6 hours to Burlington, Vermont, only stopping twice:
once for play (and a little business for me) at Mothers and Company in West Boylston, MA and once for the closest we could get to a “meal” on the road.
(Yellow Mac’n’Cheese makes me want to gag, but you do what you can…)
We managed to make it to Burlington around 4:45 PM with minimal screaming (thank goodness) and a lot of sleeping.
And then, we spent some time with our Mim, discovering things like remote controls
(which she thought was a cell phone),
shopping,
before I had to leave Nora to go do the work that brought us to Burlington. It makes sense that while living this week in the land of corporate everything, I’ll be away from her from 7:30-5:30 all week. It’s so hard (mostly for me, she’s having fun with Mim), but I just have to keep telling myself it’ll be worth it. And it will, but it still didn’t erase the pang of sadness I felt walking out the door this morning, as if I had never done it before…and it does nothing to help the slight paranoia that she might wean this week. I’m so not ready for that.
Shari
Love the Garfield photo! Enjoy yourself while you can. It’s nice to have a built in sitter while you are at class. No worries and you can spend sometime for yourself with other adults. There will be plenty of time back home with just you and Nora. Love, Mom
Jessica Myers
Glad the drive went well. You pumping at work? Mim not feeding her for an hr or so before you get home? She’ll probably nurse a ton as soon as you walk through the door. Hope the week goes well for you. We start our 2 day road trip on thursday!
Amber
Jessica MyersI am pumping, but only once. I know I should do more but I just don’t want to. I didn’t mind it before, but now it feel like such a hassle. She’s nursing some, but not much. Mim brought her for lunch yesterday and she only nursed for about 4 minutes!
alcorazon
Her little black and pink outfit is SO CUTE!!!!