Thanksgiving weekend recap
How was your Thanksgiving weekend? Hope you had lots of fun with family and friends, consumed lots of grub and booz. Here’s a recap of how we spent Thanksgiving as written in the form of the popular “priceless” Visa commercial.
Total travel time from Mass. to NJ and back: 10 hours and 30 minutes in bumper-to-bumper traffic (usual time it takes is around 8 hours), not to mention the heavy treacherous rain on the way there.
Time it took for the first “are we there yet?”: 22 minutes into the trip and counting.
Weights gained from all the gorging: wouldn’t you like to know!
Time it’ll take to reprogram the kids back to their daily routine: 5 very long days.
Number of bags to be unpacked: 2
Loads of laundry waiting Monday morning: 4
The joy on your in-laws’ faces when your 20 month-old little girl calling them “grandparents” in Korean all weekend: Priceless!!
Here are some gratuitous pictures from the trip:
Bumper-to-bumper traffic on the way home, at least it was a nice day.
One exhausted little girl!
Another exhausted kid in lala land for about 2 hours and 30 minutes! The picture is kind of blurry but you get the gest.
So what do you do when your two kids are still sleeping in the bumper-to-bumper traffic and your oldest said in a panic “I have to go pee!”?
Do you:
a) find the nearest rest area and risk the chance of waking up two very exhausted kids who will be extremely cranky from being woken up from their peaceful slumber?
or
b) you became MacGyver himself and improvise indoor plumbing?
Well, all I can say is that thank goodness for plastic and little boy’s “equipment”!
How was your Thanksgiving weekend? Hope you had lots of fun with family and friends, consumed lots of grub and booz. Here’s a recap of how we spent Thanksgiving as written in the form of the popular “priceless” Visa commercial.
Total travel time from Mass. to NJ and back: 10 hours and 30 minutes in bumper-to-bumper traffic (usual time it takes is around 8 hours), not to mention the heavy treacherous rain on the way there.
Time it took for the first “are we there yet?”: 22 minutes into the trip and counting.
Weights gained from all the gorging: wouldn’t you like to know!
Time it’ll take to reprogram the kids back to their daily routine: 5 very long days.
Number of bags to be unpacked: 2
Loads of laundry waiting Monday morning: 4
The joy on your in-laws’ faces when your 20 month-old little girl calling them “grandparents” in Korean all weekend: Priceless!!
Here are some gratuitous pictures from the trip:
Bumper-to-bumper traffic on the way home, at least it was a nice day.
One exhausted little girl!
Another exhausted kid in lala land for about 2 hours and 30 minutes! The picture is kind of blurry but you get the gest.
So what do you do when your two kids are still sleeping in the bumper-to-bumper traffic and your oldest said in a panic “I have to go pee!”?
Do you:
a) find the nearest rest area and risk the chance of waking up two very exhausted kids who will be extremely cranky from being woken up from their peaceful slumber?
or
b) you became MacGyver himself and improvise indoor plumbing?
Well, all I can say is that thank goodness for plastic and little boy’s “equipment”!
Too funny! I just told Meredith at Unexplored Territory that SHE is MacGyver for that very reason!
Plastic shopping bag.
Yup!
Anyway, glad you’re back safe and sound. We didn’t have nearly as much driving as you did. But I bet the Grandparents were thrilled with the Korean greetings!
So not fair! I have 2 little girls. I have to stop, unbutton, unsnap, unzip, listen to hollering, pull my hair out, just to hear *mommy, I dont like this potty, I cant go* AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH LOL We took what was supposed to be a 5 hour trip and turned it into an 8 hour trip. On THANKSGIVING DAY no less! The girls were starving, everything was closed, I was all like *you have to wait until we get to aunt tracy’s, so you can eat turkey* and they were like *waaaah, i’m hungry, your mean mommy* LOL I’m so glad to be back!
Make sure you CLEARLY mark that bottle. Wouldn’t want it accidentally getting mixed up with the real thing. Eew.
Me? Plenty of food. Not enough booze.
Welcome home - that traffic looks just awful!
Ingenius! Sounds like a wonderful THanksgiving!!!! Your children are adorable sleeping angels.
at least you made it a full 22 minutes. my kids barely make it out of the driveway!
That picture of your daughter looks exactly like me this weekend, after a few too many helpings of turkey. Yes, my parents have a car seat for adults in their livingroom.
Lmao!!! That’s too funny!! Glad your son could go in a cup. My son refuses to go anywhere else but the toilet. We’d have to make that dreaded stop.
Very cute pics!
I like the way you wrote your blog - Visa commercial.
wow! girl.imp would rather rupture a spleen than use facilities other than what is at home…
I love pictures of sleeping children! So adorable.
I am SO glad we didn’t have to sit in that traffic!
Wow. MacGyver is right. What aim for that little container. Must get the little man K trained like that. Well, potty first, then Lays container!
Pictures of sleeping babies SLAY me. Even the blurry ones. The slumped head and the sleepy lips… Gah. Too cute!
In the “Lay’s”!!
Wow- and they kind of taste a little weird without the pee.
hahahahaha!!!!!
Ha! Cute and funny, all in the same day.
That’s the great thing about having boys. A plastic bottle is all we need.
Hehe … glad you had fun! Your kids are adorable.
You’re not kidding about the plastic!
Yeah, I’d do pretty much anything to let a tired little kid sleep too. I love the way they look when they too.
Your kids are adorable.
But remind me never to eat potato chips in your car.
that is HILARIOUS! “boy equipment” is so much easier to work with!!
“Make sure you CLEARLY mark that bottle. Wouldn’t want it accidentally getting mixed up with the real thing. Eew.” I thought the EXACT same thing as I was reading. EEEWWW. You’re very lucky, my boys won’t even pee on the side of the road, I seriously doubt I could get them to pee in a chip container!
Glad you had fun and made it home in one piece.