I am starting to edit photos for size and content, haven’t even thought about uploading them yet. Apparently Lightroom has an update, so that is holding me up a bit.
I was going to start Saturday morning, but that’s getting ahead.
Dorian has been ill for a few weeks. Let me set this up properly. He hasn’t been ill enough for me think he is actually ill. He was vomiting here and there, but nothing more than enough for me to think his food wasn’t sitting proper. Then starts the pure liquid runs. Hm… food allergy perhaps? I started keeping a food diary for him. Friday night he wasn’t feeling well again so we set him up a little pallet on the floor to sleep on (since our bed was full and his room is downstairs). We finally get to sleep around midnight and around 1AM he wakes up vomiting all over everything. We clean that mess up and get back to bed. Alarm goes off at 5. We managed to put off getting up out of bed till 6. Go procrastination!
Saturday morning we get everyone dressed and whatnot, car loaded, last minute animal feeding and stuff. We’re on the road by 7AM, at the airport and checked in by about 8.30AM. Good stuff!
Flight was uneventful. We got to Dulles, couldn’t find the effin rental car reservation, called six places over the course of an hour and a half, panicking. It was a mess. Sarah was going to talk to one of the Punky Moms about getting us to the hotel at least, but as it turned out we didn’t have to do that. Called my dad, he hopped online for me, gave me the number for Avis (we were going to make a reservation online, but decided to phone) and they had a car, and for less than we expected to pay *and* had car seats. Yay! Crisis mostly averted. We made it to the hotel around 5.30 or 6PM, dropped our stuff off, changed and drove out to Bmore for a BBQ.
Saw the family, had a nice time, got sent back to the hotel with food. We got back around 9ish and watched some TV, decompressed and slept.
Sunday morning we drove back into Bmore, met up with my dad and siblings, had breakfast and followed them out to the cemetery. The unveiling was nice. My uncles and brother spoke, the cantor sang, Malachai hid under my skirt (I think there were way too many people for him). Went to my uncles for brunch after. Brunch was nice, got to chatter with everyone some more, and then we went back to the hotel for a nap.
Drove out to a friends home for dinner, which was a lot of fun. I wish we could do it more often. Got back to the hotel around 10 or so, crashed.
Monday we had breakfast at the hotel, and drove into DC to meet up with Paul Roe and see his new shop. Lovely. I am jealous, I wanted a shop with an art gallery. C’est la vie. He gave us some shirts and other goodies, and met up with Andi & Kira and we went to Union Station for lunch. Had a bite to eat, and drove into VA to meet up with Sarah and some Punky Moms at a park. Had a lovely time at the park. I got to hold almost poppin’ fresh babies, the kids got to run around, and I got to talk. Good all around! Then we drove a bit more into VA and met up with Patrick and Jill, Dave stopped by as well. The boys played the Wii. Dorian “bowled” like a 190! We got back to the room around… 10ish again. Maybe it was later.
Yah, I am totally glossing over stuff now. I want to lie down.
Today we drove into Gaithersburg (breakfast at the hotel, checked out) and had lunch at Bugaboo with Andi & kira, then drove to the airport and waited. The kids were not so great on the plane this time, but not *awful* I think we were all just over tired. Dorian has been sick all weekend. I am going to phone the doctor tomorrow about him.
I’ll post some more tomorrow, I need to lie down.
