Mini Vacay

We're packing up for a mini trip to Minneapolis this weekend! I'm excited but apprehensive, as I typically am before a trip.
Excited
- to go to a Twins game in the new stadium
- to eat at The Cheesecake Factory for Jenna's birthday
- to be in a big city again
- to spend time with my family
- to eat junk food on during the road trip (what? that's something to get excited about, right?)
- to have a set budget for the trip so we can't go overboard and then get home and freak out over not being able to pay bills for the next few months!


Apprehensive
- about sitting in a vehicle for 5 hours with six other people (I get a bit claustrophobic and anxious)
- about sharing a room with the boy because I snore and I know I snore and I'm a light sleeper and I worry that if I snore I'm going to wake up the boy and thereby wake myself and so I just end up hardly sleeping at all.
- as you can imagine, this makes for a very crabby lady the next day.
- as you can imagine, this, in turn, makes for a very crabby husband.
- as you can imagine, this makes every irritating thing our children do seem ten times more irritating.
- I don't like the traffic in Minneapolis.
- I don't like the freeways either.
- They stress me out.
- Like, big time.
- The thought of taking the three kids to a baseball game is pretty much freaking me out.
- I hope Grandma and Grampa are prepared to fork out lots of treats to keep the kids from causing me to lose it.
- The fact that my apprehensive list is quite a bit longer than my excited list is causing me to stress out.
- It's making me pretty much freak out, too.
- Like, big time.

I'll see you on the other side!

Make each day count!