When Levi and Jesse came home from milking, they did some math and helped with chores and packing. It was a busy morning of packing, doing some Friday jobs, and making snacks to eat in the van. There’s a lot to pack for 11 people! Dad left work around noon, and did Grandma’s medicines then was home soon after that. By 1:30 (?) or so we were in the van, heading to Morton for a few errands before heading to Jason and Carrie’s for the weekend. We were at Tri-County Mowers for 8 minutes, stopped at Uncle Jerry’s shop for 2 minutes, then got stuck at CIT for 15 minutes or more, then finally were rolling to Detroit by 2:30 or so. I don’t think I can say we had a good trip here, because Joshua was nothing but fussy for the most part. Here’s one of his rare happy moments…and this was at CIT while we were waiting for Dad… this may be what ruined the rest of the trip for him, because he quickly learned that it’s much nicer to be out of the carseat.
As we prepared to pull onto interstate at Goodfield, we saw this huge pile of stuff AGAIN, and finally drove over to see what it was. It was pallets. A huge big pile of pallets. Then we finally hit the road for real after that.
Traffic was not fun by our standards, although from talking to Jason it probably wasn’t that bad. It’s much different than what we’re used to, that’s for sure. The one traffic jam was caused by a truck that apparently just stalled in the middle of the road. We were just ready to pass him when all traffic was stopped so the tow truck could move the poor sap to the side of the road.
After we got through that, we made pretty good time for awhile. We had another complete jam, where we stopped all the way for awhile, and just generally heavy traffic, we thought. But thanks be to God, we were safe nonetheless, and even managed to enjoy the trip despite Joshua’s steady fussing and 1 ? 2 hours of crying before he finally fell asleep crying, around 8:00. He slept the rest of the way then, and we made it to Jason and Carrie’s around 9:45…which was 10:45 their time, and their kids were all long in bed. Most of our kids settled right back down, but Joshua…well in his book, he’d just had a 2 hour nap. He was wild and rarin’ to go…which wasn’t a well-planned move on our part, but after his 2 hour (which seemed like longer but probably wasn’t that long) cry, there was no way we were going to wake him up unnecessarily.
We kept Jason and Carrie up too long, but it was so good to see them and they didn’t seem too mad about it; anyway, we figured (correctly) that Joshua wouldn’t settle down unless Dad or I was in the room, and he was full of energy and not at all ready to sleep. Levi and Jesse were up with us awhile too, then, and I don’t know what time it was when we finally all headed to bed. Dad did some stuff on his work computer, and I did a blog for the day, then when Joshua finally fell asleep, we shut down too.
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