Long flights, rain, airport sagas, sore throats, exhaustion etc etc
The title says it all!
We are finally back in Memphis after a very very long day, a possible contender for most exhausting day, but i give that to the day Livi was transferred.
The airport scenario was one that you had to be there to truly understand. No words can begin to convey what its like carrying 2 babies in slings, 5 suitcases, 2 car seats, 2 diaper bags, video-camera in bag, hand luggage, cot-in-box (filled with other stuff), laptop in laptop bag, while making sure you have your tickets, passports, and take back the hired car (with the carseat bases in them, to be packaged and boxed up after the babies are out -- which all had to be done in the emergency parking station so that we could run the babies in quickly so they wouldn't get wet and cold), then go through security (taking off everything, down to our shoes), the full search of the bags too, apparently those enfamil formula bottles look a little suspect and Al-Qaeda-esque. All while we are half asleep, fighting flus and trying to keep a smile on our dials!
Anyway going back to last night for a sec, after Mum and Net arrived, they hit the hay around 10pm last night so they could at least be semi-concious for the trip ahead. I woke them at 4am (D and I were up all night with the girlies who decided to have a decibel competition. They were just so upset last night, we ended up moving them to this back room, so we didnt' wake Net and Jet. D was trying to work, and i was trying to settle them, but eventually gave up and started feeds at 3am, which took me to 4am, time to get ready to leave.
Anywayz, woke Net and Jet, and we had a frantic run around the house packing last minute things and loaded the girls in the car at 4:30am in the rain. A decent trip to Seattle airport (maybe 1.5hrs), and a mean security guard (one of those psychopaths who takes his job far too seriously) I had all the formula in zip-lock bags (as per the regulations), but i failed to note 3oz per bag, well if 1 tin is 8 oz, am i supposed to split the tin?? what a maniac!..Apparently so. Dustin and I had words with him, and i actually told him he was a mean man, i'm sure that really cut deep. All this with a preemie baby strapped to my stomach, he obviously doesn't have kids, he couldn't have cared less. He said "these rules have been out for 2 months and you're holding everyone up', he made us do a full search of all our bags. We all decided he was a waste of space and moved on.
Trains, and 2 planes later we arrive in Memphis. Dustins Dad greeted us and they went to get the cars organized, a couple of hours later, dirty diapers, hungry bubs, cable cut off (some billing error), dishwasher not working (story of my life!), and not enough formula (I had just enough to get us home, couldn't carry much more than that, and of course didn't buy any before the bubs because i didn't know what brand. So.. D has just gone out now, its 11:30pm to stock up, hes So tired, hes about to fall over. Mum and Auntie Net have hit the hay and i'm going to stay up and Mum and Net are going to get up around 6am. And i will finally get some sleep, yay! Right now i'm trying to keep the girls calm, so they dont wake up M and Net, so i have them both together in a sling against my chest, its working.. for now! They look so cute.
Oh yeah, sore throat saga continues, its now turned into full-on, excruciating pain to swallow situation. More vitamins and see what happens.
I'm tired but still doing ok, if its possible i'm still on adrenalin and have been since the day they were born. It might also be because I know Mum and Auntie Net are jetlagged and exhausted (have pretty much been flying non-stop since leaving Australia), and Dustin is a shadow of his former self, he came home tonight washed out and over it, and has to hit the computer all night for work, and then found out no cable (have to sort that out tomorrow) so we're on a slow wireless from next door, had his family come over too, had a variety of other, just-got-home chores, and just wanted to sleep, but work had to be done, so hes in the back room trying to keep his eyes open and work, and I'm just sitting with my girlies both in my lap, about to get ready for the next feeding.
More photos soon! I took some amazing ones of Mum and Auntie Net meeting the girls for the first time.
We are finally back in Memphis after a very very long day, a possible contender for most exhausting day, but i give that to the day Livi was transferred.
The airport scenario was one that you had to be there to truly understand. No words can begin to convey what its like carrying 2 babies in slings, 5 suitcases, 2 car seats, 2 diaper bags, video-camera in bag, hand luggage, cot-in-box (filled with other stuff), laptop in laptop bag, while making sure you have your tickets, passports, and take back the hired car (with the carseat bases in them, to be packaged and boxed up after the babies are out -- which all had to be done in the emergency parking station so that we could run the babies in quickly so they wouldn't get wet and cold), then go through security (taking off everything, down to our shoes), the full search of the bags too, apparently those enfamil formula bottles look a little suspect and Al-Qaeda-esque. All while we are half asleep, fighting flus and trying to keep a smile on our dials!
Anyway going back to last night for a sec, after Mum and Net arrived, they hit the hay around 10pm last night so they could at least be semi-concious for the trip ahead. I woke them at 4am (D and I were up all night with the girlies who decided to have a decibel competition. They were just so upset last night, we ended up moving them to this back room, so we didnt' wake Net and Jet. D was trying to work, and i was trying to settle them, but eventually gave up and started feeds at 3am, which took me to 4am, time to get ready to leave.
Anywayz, woke Net and Jet, and we had a frantic run around the house packing last minute things and loaded the girls in the car at 4:30am in the rain. A decent trip to Seattle airport (maybe 1.5hrs), and a mean security guard (one of those psychopaths who takes his job far too seriously) I had all the formula in zip-lock bags (as per the regulations), but i failed to note 3oz per bag, well if 1 tin is 8 oz, am i supposed to split the tin?? what a maniac!..Apparently so. Dustin and I had words with him, and i actually told him he was a mean man, i'm sure that really cut deep. All this with a preemie baby strapped to my stomach, he obviously doesn't have kids, he couldn't have cared less. He said "these rules have been out for 2 months and you're holding everyone up', he made us do a full search of all our bags. We all decided he was a waste of space and moved on.
Trains, and 2 planes later we arrive in Memphis. Dustins Dad greeted us and they went to get the cars organized, a couple of hours later, dirty diapers, hungry bubs, cable cut off (some billing error), dishwasher not working (story of my life!), and not enough formula (I had just enough to get us home, couldn't carry much more than that, and of course didn't buy any before the bubs because i didn't know what brand. So.. D has just gone out now, its 11:30pm to stock up, hes So tired, hes about to fall over. Mum and Auntie Net have hit the hay and i'm going to stay up and Mum and Net are going to get up around 6am. And i will finally get some sleep, yay! Right now i'm trying to keep the girls calm, so they dont wake up M and Net, so i have them both together in a sling against my chest, its working.. for now! They look so cute.
Oh yeah, sore throat saga continues, its now turned into full-on, excruciating pain to swallow situation. More vitamins and see what happens.
I'm tired but still doing ok, if its possible i'm still on adrenalin and have been since the day they were born. It might also be because I know Mum and Auntie Net are jetlagged and exhausted (have pretty much been flying non-stop since leaving Australia), and Dustin is a shadow of his former self, he came home tonight washed out and over it, and has to hit the computer all night for work, and then found out no cable (have to sort that out tomorrow) so we're on a slow wireless from next door, had his family come over too, had a variety of other, just-got-home chores, and just wanted to sleep, but work had to be done, so hes in the back room trying to keep his eyes open and work, and I'm just sitting with my girlies both in my lap, about to get ready for the next feeding.
More photos soon! I took some amazing ones of Mum and Auntie Net meeting the girls for the first time.
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