Not Ready for Reality

This is where Jesse and I spent this past weekend (I didn't take this picture, it came from their website)...
We stayed at The Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, NH. It was amazing!! I wish I had brought my camera -- it was so beautiful. There is this gorgeous wrap around veranda that looks right at Mt. Washington. It was spectacular!
The Family Support Conference that we attended while there was great also. We took home some great techniques to try with the kids to help them stay calm as well at tips on how to try and make it easier for them to learn. It was also great to meat other parents and families dealing with disabilities. We also were able to meet a women named Karla who works for the state and was sympathetic to our story and our long wait on the respite waiting list -- so she gave us the phone number to a gentleman who may be able to bump us to the top of the list which is great!!
But back to the hotel... we had a great room, with a very comfortable pillow top bed -- I think it was the best sleep that either of us have gotten since Aidan was born!! And the hotel is full of history and romance -- they even still have to old elevator working with an elevator man! The whole weekend I felt like I was in a different time.
Neither Jesse nor I wanted to come back to "the real world" so we took our time coming home, meandering through the mountains.
It was a bit of a rude awakening to come home though. Back to the screaming, back to the sink full of dishes, back to the piles of laundry, back to cleaning the house, back to worrying how to pay the bills this month, back to cooking dinner and making snacks, but most of all -- back to the life I wouldn't change for anything!!

Vacation!!

So Jesse and I haven't had a vacation with just the two of us since our honeymoon almost 8 years ago.... in fact we haven't spent anytime away from home together with the exception of the time in the hospital when I had the kids!! So imagine how excited I am that we are going to a conference this weekend at the Mt. Washington Hotel!!! YEAH!!! What makes it even better is that we got a scholarship to go so that the conference and the hotel room are all taken care of!!!! I am so excited to get away that I am already packed!
But of course, just about anything that can go wrong has gone wrong so far this week.... Where to start, we Cora and Haylee were sick ALL last week -- I am so sick of cleaning up puke -- but they have been puke free since Sunday which is good, but Haylee started running a fever on Monday afternoon -- ARGGG! I think it is from teething though, she has 4 teeth coming in on the top so she is very unhappy!!
Let's see, Cora has entered into her naked stage! Many of you may remember that Aidan was in this stage for a VERY long time -- I hope Cora doesn't last that long. I must of dressed her at least 10 times today and each time she would run upstairs and strip!
And then there's Aidan... I think he is just missing the routine of school. Vacation weeks for him are always difficult for us, although I am impressed that it took him till today before he lost it... but we have made it to the half way point in his vacation so now we enter the downward spiral until it is time to return to school -- not my most favorite time in vacations....
Finally, the van is on the fritz...it is not running well at all! So it is going into the shop on Friday --- we are praying that it will last that long --- and we are going to get a rental for the week so that Jesse can still work since we will need to money to pay for the van repair....
Oh, what a week -- but at least there is a light at the end of the tunnel!!