Afraid to Say Much

I have about one minute to post something and am afraid to say much because if I start, I might not be able to stop. I really, really tried to be "glass half full" this trip. Really, I did. My glass is near empty right now. It started when there wasn't a plug in our aisle on the plane for the DVD player (ours in November had one and for some reason, we don't have a battery for ours). It was the longest 2 1/2 hours of my life. I had Gia on my lap wanting to get down and crying when she couldn't and throwing every snack I gave her at the person in front of us and chucking the binky, book or toy on the floor. I had Isabella on one side of me asking every ten minutes, "Are we landing because my ears hurt?" I finally had Gia almost sleeping and right by her head, Belle decided to open a bag of crackers. Then Leo, who decided a burrito would be a great thing to eat before we got on the plane, felt no burp should be stifled. I was sweating and kept thinking, Why am I not skinnier?

Being here at Leo's mom's has been hard because Gia is not at an easy age and hasn't slept that great. There are open ceilings so any conversations are loud ones even if the people aren't loud but Leo's mom and Arnie are loud so it is even harder. I wanted to go out for sushi with everyone but Gia fell asleep on me because that is the only way she'll sleep through the noise that is my other kids, Leo and his family so they went without me. Leo's mom and Arnie thought they could babysit but there was no way I was going to put her down once she was sleeping. It took forever to get her to go to sleep. It's a joke trying to do anything with everyone because everyone wants to do different things. The highlight so far has been the delicious salted, caramel hot chocolates at their Target. I sat in a Walmart parking lot for an hour while Leo looked for little fish to catch bigger fish with. Gia was napping so he thought that it would be okay.

The silver lining and glass half full is that the weather is really nice and we've been able to go to the pool (where Gia likes it for 10 minutes). The first day swimming, Belle had a split lip and Tommy thought he almost drowned (he swallowed some water). Good times.

Sadly, there is so much more that I don't even know if I'll ever be able to post about. I don't know who reads this but I know Leo does and why fight twice? We are headed to Orlando tomorrow. I am hoping that someone has a giant, frozen, strawberry margarita waiting for me by the pool.