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Phew! Today was crazy, we are hitting the road for our return to the Midwest in a few hours. Dan is on his way home from work right now, so I have to write fast! Dan and I hit felt done enough to hit the sack at 2am. Sera gave us a woke up call at about 6, which came fast, but we needed to get busy anyway. We got the last couple things into our SAM, namely, the boys' mattresses. Once Dan left for work the kids and I took the van to get an oil change.

I went to the place that is 100 ft from a McDonald's with a playplace, but when we got there, we were the first ones there, and they said only 10-15 minutes, so I decided to wait it out. Ugh, of course it took 35 minutes, which isn't terribly long, unless you're trying to keep two 3 year olds from flooding the waiting room with the bubbler, while also limiting their intake of the complementary donuts. Sera was happily playing in her carseat for awhile, but then got hungry, and of course as soon as she's happily nursing, I'm required to fill out paper work. So I stand up, with Sera in the crook of my arm, still eating, and the guy says, "Oh, she's eating?" I answered a quick, "yep" and was internally tsking at him because I thought he was hinting at inappropriateness, when he was says in a lovely Jamacain accent, "That's wonderful for the baby, so natural, the mother's milk is the best milk" That really made my day, and today was a TOUGH day. Naturally, I called Libby to share the story. We love to talk about our customer service experiences - usually they're frustrated venting sessions, but I LOVE it when we have a good one to talk about, just restores your faith in humanity.

We ran more errands and Libby came along with me on the phone, and I got to listen in on Maddi making a peanut butter sandwich and really wanting to share with Logan, who is still too little for peanut butter.

This is my last post for a few days, but of course Libby will keep writing, when she's not too busy providing me GPS services...