Spring Break- VA

We had a great trip to Virginia at the beginning of Spring Break- just me and the boys! The drive up was...okay..... I didn't have to pull over to sleep at all- it just got really long, what should have been 8 turned in to 11 hours! As I recently told a friend, it just gave me that much more time to ascend to new heights in parenting excellence! Really, though, the boys did amazing, they were so patient while I drove one handed digging through bags blindly to find what they needed while cruising along at 70mph. However, there were times when we just had to stop, all sit in the back seat and get out the books and read, or have "run around time" at a rest stop to "get our wiggles out." When we finally got to VA we had a really special time playing with the toys that live there, meeting Ben's family, being with Ben and Sarah, going bowling with Sarah, momo and Ben's siblings, going to EMU's Spring musical (a totally engrossing production about fairies that the boys were totally mesmerised by), going to a cookout at a horse farm and playing with the barn cat....... The standout experience, though, was having lots of papa-time; Silas spent all of Saturday mostly alone with papa- going to the Stockyard across the street, playing Uno, going to EMU to play tennis together on their bikes, going back to the Stockyard, going to Dairy Queen for hot dogs and ice-cream, and then playing more Uno. Because we don't live nearby, the times together are so special.