-thunk- Home now, please

Hence follows a brief summary of the past almost-week:

Packed kids, stuff, self, catchild and warinbear into van. Left at about 9 in the morning. Got mildly lost in Nashville. Drove all day. Stopped for the night at around 10. Drove more on Friday. Stopped in the afternoon at Catchild's mom's place. Drove more on Saturday. Got briefly lost in the Boston area. (I do not reccomend this as a soothing pasttime, BTW.) Stopped briefly at chaiya and hakadamare's place, so they wouldn't worry about our status, i.e., lost or unlost. teddywolf led us back to Mystery House, where we had a very nice dinner with him and tigerbright. Sorry I dodn't eat more of the alfredo pasta; the tastebuds were willing but the stomach was weak. Got worked on by the Wolfie. My right arm feels much, much better. Drove back to Chaiya's. Watched people go nuts trying to get last minute wedding details finished. Considered public declarations of sainthood on the spot for various and sundry who helped our tired and frazzeled selves get settled in. Collapsed into sleep. Went to breakfast on Sunday at ceelove's place. Met up with dimers and his lady, whose LJ name I cannot currently remember. His lady is also nominated for sainthood for volunteering for Phouka duty, up and down the stairs.

Went to wedding. Yaaaay, Chaiya and Hakadamare! Mazel Tov! Iced Catchild's knee at wedding. Chased all three children around at said wedding. Had to leave early, 'cause blood sugar was not happy for me or for Catchild. Nominated cristavau for sainthood. Ate food at Chaiya's, hoping all the while that I wasn't accidently de-koshering their kitchen. Group came back from wedding. Sent Chaiya to bed. Ate some more. Found out that Catchild's grandma had passed away. Catchild went to dinner with Chaiya and others. Warin and I got the two eldest off to bed, and settled down with Phouka and a movie. She was still awake when Catchild got home. Crawled into bed. Found out next morning that I almost got carted off to the ER due to coughing fits during the night. Heard about the velvet dust, so didn't panic when I started coughing up black specks Monday morning. Breakfast with nonnycat hosed due to her and her guy being sick. :( Hope to get to see you guys at some point. Went to breakfast with newly wed Jewish couple. :) Got on the road. Got lost in Boston. Again. Cannot reccomend enough that this is not a soothing pasttime. Drove all day. Kids hit that point in the road-trip where they have had enough of being in a vehicle. Got in at Catchild's mom's at 10:30 ET. Fell into various beds.

It is now Tuesday. Catchild and the two elder girls are at the funeral. Warin and I are on Phouka duty.

I loved getting to meet everybody. The wedding was wonderful, dinner at Mystery House was great, and I'm glad we could make it up here. With that said, I want to go home now. I miss louisadkins, I miss ebonunicorn, and I miss the land. I really miss clean air right about now. I also really miss the nice, Phouka-proofed living room.

We drive all day tomorrow, and part of Thursday. Then, I will have passed a major parenting right of passage: Road-trip with children.