OMG! Is it good to be home!!!

Some of you may have noticed (or not) that I've been gone. My family and I went to visit my parents. I also got to see my brother while we were there, and my sister came down for a day. So it was a family reunion of sorts. (I hadn't seen either of them in nearly 4 years.)

Vacation Day 1 - Flights were relatively uneventful (which is always good) and it was good to get in and unpack, settle in, etc. We had dinner, lounged around, took naps. It was good.

Vacation Day 2 - (TMI WARNING - the easily squeamish should skip this one.) I started my period for the first time since my 16 month old was born. Happy vacation, right? We went out to dinner with my parents. <3 Olive Garden.

Vacation Day 3 - We went shopping, hung out, my brother and his daughter came over, we had dinner. We took the 16 month old for his first hair cut. I'll have to post pictures later, but he was sooo good! He sat all by himself and did great. He looks so much more grown up now!

Vacation Day 4 - 1:30 am (ANOTHER TMI WARNING - the easily squeamish should probably just skip the rest of this post, actually.) Cute, very grown up looking little man with new hair cut gets very sick. He started throwing up everything, couldn't keep anything in him. That afternoon he started running a fever, so we took him to the ER. They said Tylenol suppositories (poor guy) and pedialyte (which as anyone with kids knows, is the nastiest stuff ever) and if he wasn't any better to bring him back the next day.

Vacation Day 5 - repeat Day 4, but (TMI WARNING AGAIN) add diarrhea. We took him back, and they told us this time that if he kept throwing up to bring him back for IV fluids.

Vacation Day 6 - He still threw up a few times that night (technically day 6, but I was not going to the ER at that time of the morning). By the time we got up, he'd stopped puking.

Vacation Day 7 - the diarrhea continues. He's still running a low-grade fever. I've done so much laundry that I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to buy my parents a new washing machine.

Vacation Day 8 - The little one's fever was gone, so we went to the zoo! It was just a little zoo, took like an hour and a half, but it was fun. And I fell in love with the leopard that hissed at me when I made kissy noises at him. They wouldn't let me take him home, though.

Vacation Day 9 - We had to buy another suitcase to get all our stuff home in. And we spent nearly 100 usd shipping stuff home a few days before. Baby somehow managed to not poop in his diaper, but out of the car seat and all over the back seat of my dad's car. I managed to forget the diaper bag and we had nothing! So hubby had to run in, buy clothes, diapers, wipes, etc etc, so we could clean up the little guy, the carseats and then get a suitcase. Pack, do more laundry, feel bad cause I only got to see my sister for a few hours, etc etc.

Vacation Day 10 - We got up at 3:45 to be to the airport in time for our 6:00am flight. The guy who fills the planes with gas apparently forgot to go in to work. They had to make all the planes sit and wait while someone else came in and fueled them all up. Thankfully the diarrhea wasn't on the plane, but apparently it's not over yet.

And I've got a bazillion emails from IM's over the last week, and who knows what else in my inventory (since my inventory still won't load)to catch up on.

But it's good to be home. I promise I won't be doing that vacation thing again any time soon. I'm exhausted.