Minnesota for Thanksgiving...Idaho for Christams

So, we're planning for the holidays, of course. For Thanksgiving J, M and I are going to drive to Minnesota and stay with my mom for a couple of days, and my sister for a couple more. We plan to leave Wednesday after J gets off work and drive straight through to moms, pass out, and then get up and eat turkey dinner prepared by my wonderful sister Erin. We are all looking forward to this trip and visiting everyone, even Emily will be there! (of course, megan lives there.) On the other hand, I was saying very little about it to M because I didn't want to tell her no every day that we were not going today. As could be expected my family was not as close-lipped and every time M talked to one of them on the phone it was "are you coming to see me? Are you ready to come and play with ___" (fill in the blank with someone in Minnesota!) So now, almost every day, M says "Go see Grandma JO? Go see aunt Erin? Go see aunt Megan? See Cara & Gillian??? I ready. Lets go! I excited!" And I am left to burst her bubble everytime, saying, "no, baby. Not yet. we still have a MONTH left!!" fortunately, now its only a week.
After that trip we are going to drive to Idaho for christmas and stay for a week to visit J's family....and hopefully Emily too. In any case...we're gonna be really tired of driving!

Comments

Gauthier Gang said…

I am really sad that we are going to miss you at Thanksgiving and Christmas. So that just means you need to come visit again.

November 19, 2008 at 10:25 AM

Emily said…

what do you mean "hopefully Emily"? how could you be so close and not say "definately Emily"?

November 22, 2008 at 7:14 PM

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