Anything But Gray

The hours before we leave on a trip.

I alternate between being super excited, super stressed and super worried.
And throughout every one of these moods is the screaming thought..
I JUST WANT TO GET THERE.

It is such a LONG trip.
I hate it…I'm so tired of doing it.
I have flown across the country 30+ times…
What I would give to have just a two hour flight to get where I'm going.
Instead of this all day, jet lag inducing trek across the freakin' country.
It is physically a draining trip, but emotionally it's rough because I am so friggin' impatient!
From the second I step on the plane, I am just dying to get there.
And this time we are sleeping over in Seattle.
We decided to try to break it up this time, hoping that might make it easier.
We are also taking the straight through flight, this time. We've never done that before, gone straight from Seattle to Boston. Four hours is typically my limit on a plane…right about there is where I start getting hot, tired, pissy and just sick of being on the plane. And with this flight, there's 2 more hours to go at 4 hours. ugh.
I'm hoping having the kids will help make time go by fast. I'm hoping keeping them entertained will keep us busy…
lol.

I'm not too worried about how the kids will do because they have always been very good travelers..but this 6 hour flight IS asking a lot of them, so we'll see.
They are really excited and that's cool.
They went to bed really easy tonight, which is a miracle in and of itself right there and I am so thankful they did. Because this is the part of the trip where I start getting really stressed out and kids refusing to go to sleep would not have helped that, at all. So this is a good sign, for me. A good omen….and hopefully it's an indication of the trip going super smoothly.

Fingers crossed!

I didn't get a chance to see Kim or Danielle and I'm bummed, I had wanted to see them before we left…but other than that little bump in the road, everything is good!

Now I'm gonna go try to relax my mind and get some sleep.