Back to Our Roots

wish me luck. tomorrow i am taking 2 kids by myself on an airplane to south dakota to visit mama and papa. annie has assured me she will be a good girl - and i almost believe her, if for no other reason than she knows what is waiting for her when she deplanes in sioux foo. i have enough dvds, dora snacks and books to keep us occupied for days. hopefully, it will only be a few hours. i'm not sure how japper is going to handle his first flight. you know, annie was awesome the first time she flew, so jasper will probably be the opposite. don't think i'm not giving him tylenol before we board.

is 9am too early for me to have a gin and tonic? people might judge. what the judgers don't know is i hate flying. hate it. as in come-to-terms-with-my-death-every-time-i-board-a-plane-hate-it. but now i have children to worry about. i can't be releasing that kind of paranoid/psychotic energy into the universe when they are there with me; i don't want to pass it on to them. maybe i'll be so caught up in them i'll forget that i'm on a gigantic machine that weighs much too much to stay in the air on it's own and is surely going to fall out of the sky...sure i will. i know my bro jay is totally rolling his eyes at me right now. in his head he's like "of course it's not too heavy..." and then he'll be going on with some perfectly reasonable - and scientifically explanable - reason why airplanes are safer than blah, blah, blah, blah. he's totally making fun of me. but i still hate flying. unless he decides to take me to greece with him and sarah on their honeymoon. then i'll love to fly. only that's weird and creepy and lets forget i said that. god. see? talking about flying makes me act nuts.

sigh. anywho, i'm excited for our trip. it's going to be good to get back home and sit on the front porch with my folks drinking t&t's. mmmm.

i probably won't be blogging while i'm gone. maybe. but maybe not. i know you don't know what to do with yourselves now. deal with it. i'll be back in a little over a week. happy memorial day - can you believe it's that time already?! wow.

peace.