On the road again

After the chaos of Halloween I was looking forward to a week of calm before undertaking the new challenge of caring for a baby 4 hours per day. Instead I’m spending this week preparing for a weekend jaunt to Boise. I’m happy to be going, I’ll get to see family especially my sister’s new baby, but I won’t get the week of calm that I hoped for. The kids are all excited. They love their cousins and relish any chance they get to be together. Now all I’ve got to do is laundry, and clean the floors, and clean out the car, and load dishes, and fold laundry, and pack, and …