Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Traveling tales

We survived yesterday. It was very tiring though. Somehow the 2.5 hour drive there turned into almost 4 hours. My sister who is visiting from Florida drove while I rode in the back with Julian. I can't say my sister is my favorite person to travel with and now I remember why. I was anxious enough over how well Julian would do for such a long drive. So we're getting ready to leave and my sister, who supposedly got directions, says:

Her: You know how to get to 83 right?
Me: No, not from Mom's
Her: What do you mean no?
Me: No means "Nope, don't know the way." I know how to get there from my house and that would be completely out of the way
Her: Well I'm sure it's easy
Me: It's not, there are a lot of turns, we need to call mom
Her: I think I know how
Me: How do you know how, you don't even live in MD
Her: I've driven it a couple of times
Me: Fine, whatever

I almost, almost called my mom for directions anyway when my sister went out to the car. But I thought about how Bryan would hate it if I did that to him so I trusted her. Mistake #1. Every frigin' intersection she says "what do you think should we turn here?" I DON'T KNOW which is the same thing I was saying before we left. Damn it! I'm already stressed because I don't know how long Julian will stay calm, the last thing I feel like doing is fucking around trying to make it to the highway. By the time she says I should call mom, my cell phone doesn't have a cignal because we're on these back ass roads. Needless to say we got lost and it took us way longer than it should have. I was PISSED!

Fortunately Julian held strong and with some entertaining and effort on my part, slept most of the time. The last 20 minutes we're pretty rough so my sister started flying on more back roads, meanwhile I'm trying to keep him calm and not throw up at the same time. We get there and my Grandparents we're so happy to see him. So it was worth it. He was pretty "rutchy" as my mom would say, not sure if that's a real word but it's a good description. It was exhausting. I think the car ride plus being out of his element and me without all of my tools to soothe made it a little more work than normal. I had my sling which he would have been fine in the whole day but they actually wanted to see and visit with him so I didn't want him cacooned up the whole time. So I kept him in there for just a little bit and they were so impressed with how calm it made him. I CAN NOT LIVE WITHOUT MY SLING. He loves it, I love it, everyone we're around loves it. We did have a lovely time non the less.

The ride home he slept from the moment we got in until 10 minutes to my moms. And yes, this time the 2.5 hour ride actually took 2.5 hours. But man, those last 10 minutes we're hard core! He was fed up, I don't blame him, it was such a long day for a 6 week old. He doesn't use a pacifier so the last couple minutes I got him to suck on my finger and we managed to make it to my mom's before he exploded again. I knew he was starving and so did my boob. Once I took my nursing bra flap down, it was spraying clear across the room like a fire hose. And man, no wonder my nipples are sore, my frigin' finger was sore from the 3 minutes he sucked on that. He's one rough guy. Awww, my little tough man. I love him.

He and I FINALLY made it back to our own house. He was just tired and hard to soothe by that point. I felt bad for Bryan who hadn't seen him in so long and he finally does and he's beyond rutchy. But Julian and I hopped in the bath together and soaked our stress away. Until he shit in the tub.

3 Comments:

Blogger Pip and Tom said...

Mind if I ask which sling he likes so much? I never had luck with the basic fabric slings with my first son, so I'm a little hinky buying a new one for my 4 week old. I'd love a good one!

12:15 PM  
Blogger Mama C-ta said...

I have 2 I like, one ring sling from rockinbabysling.com and a lightly padded Kangaroo Korner ring sling. I really do like them both, but I think the KK sling might be a tad more comfortable. But the rockin baby has a pocket which is very useful :) I have a fleece pouch sling from KK also but haven't used it yet, waiting for the right temp!

I also have a couple of Mei Tai carriers from bellalinabambina.com which are really, really great and most comfortable I think. Plus they are better as they get older too.

12:55 PM  
Blogger reet said...

sorry about the drive up,,,stressful i know. i did that to ainsley once. only it was 6 hours to middle earth to visit dan and donna! it seems like the bath was soothing though! it really relaxed him huh!?

7:43 AM  

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