For a three-day trip, we needed over 40 diapers in four kinds--newborn, size 5, "swimmy", and overnight.
I always, always pack food. Which drives Kevin crazy, because, you know, there are grocery stores in Richland, and the van is already
so full. Because, you know, all I want to do is go on vacation and spend the first morning
grocery shopping. As I pack a basket and cooler with food, I can already envision the steam coming out of Kevin's ears when he goes to put it in the van.
I've been spending several weekends a year at Pam's house on Gull Lake for...13 years? We've been there for every Fourth of July (but one) for as many of those years as I can remember. We've brought little babies there--both Annie and Eddie made the trip to Aunt Pam's before they were two weeks old. And yet, this time around, I could not figure out what we needed to bring. I think that's largely because I never know exactly what kind of trip it's going to be. Do the kids need one set of clothes because they'll just go back and forth between their bathing suits and pajamas the whole time? Or twice as many clothes as there will be days, because they'll be down at the lake and decide to swimming RIGHT NOW and go in their clothes? Do we need pillows? Sleeping bags? A bouncy seat? Kids' Motrin?
As it turned out, we had what we needed. But it was still pretty much A ZOO! It's going to take some figuring out how to be at the lake with four kids, including a newborn. (And, as an extended family, how to fit 13 people--13 people!--in three bedrooms.) More than once, we caught DJ wandering around outside by himself. Oh well, we packed in all the fun we could find.
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| All of us after the parade |
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| Cherry hands! |
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| Nellie loves tubing... |
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| ...Nellie does NOT love skiing (yet). |
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| So tired when we left |
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