Weekend Recap…

Let’s see…

We drove to Denis’ parents’ place on Thursday. First long car trip with a potty-trained toddler = the longest car trip ever. But we arrived with a dry kid and a dry car, so we did good. Of course, we also arrived with a sleeping kid who promptly woke up and wouldn’t go back to sleep until 1 AM. Sigh.

Friday we had a wedding to attend. We missed the ceremony because it was raining cats and dogs and traffic was crawling along at about 10 miles per hour. But we did make it to the reception, which was as interesting as all Long Island receptions are. (I’ll never understand the dancing during dinner thing…) This time we managed to pick up a sleeping kid from one house, put her in the car, put her in bed, and get away with it.

Saturday was spent at Denis’ sister Mary’s house. Carrie had such incredible fun with her cousins that she was begging to stay longer. It reminded me of all the times I’d hide in my cousin’s closet thinking that if my parents couldn’t find me they’d just leave without me when it was time to go. As if! And despite being in PJs and a night diaper, she didn’t fall asleep in the car, and in fact not until sometime after I finally fell asleep myself.

Sunday we got up bright and early, had breakfast and took an incredibly scenic route to Rhinebeck! Between the foliage, the wool, the llamas, and did I mention the wool?, I was in heaven. Carrie seemed to really enjoy it too, especially when we happened upon some jugglers and when I dragged myself away from the wool and took her on all the kiddie rides. More about Rhinebeck tomorrow when I take pictures of all my new goodies!

Sunday night was spent in a hotel where…guess what? The kid didn’t sleep. Well, she did, but not until 11:00. At least it was better than previous nights, right?

And we finally got home today after a nice scenic trip home, during which the kid (finally) slept. The dogs are happy to see us, and are very lucky not to be listed on Ebay today. Apparently one of them got into my half- quarter-finished Mystery Lace Stole and did quite a job on it, but my Mom and Van spent hours earlier today re-winding the yarn and picking dog fur out of it, and miraculously it’s unharmed. Lucky dogs.