I feel like I’ve been traveling all summer, and we still have much more to do! I wish I could say we are back home now, relaxing, but we’re not. As soon as we got back, slept like rock and did some laundry, me and Savannah were right back out the door to visit my family again.

Our little weekend trip to visit Mark’s family for forth of July went very well. Long drive for a very short visit, but worth it. Savannah has turned into a marvelous little traveler and I’ve been thanking God all summer long for that. It gets so much easier when they get older, oh my goodness! No stopping every 2 hours to feed, no bottles in the car, no messy baby food. A box of yogurt covered raisins or crackers and the girl is set for a few more hours. Since our trip was about 7 hours long, we brought along a lap top and played her Baby Einstein videos to help pass the time (quietly). She didn’t watch it the whole time obviously, but it helped those last few hours when she was getting more antsy. We also brought along the Kid’s music mix that doesn’t hurt my hears.

Things I learned on this trip:

1. I now get car sick in the back seat, not matter how long or short the drive. This is new to me, as when I was a kid I could read, play games, anything, no matter where I sat. Now? It’s pure torture. It’s sad when you prefer to drive than be a lazy passenger!

2. Savannah has learned how to get her arms out of her seat belt. Oy.

3. Driving through Atlanta with their 7-8 lanes of traffic is intense.

4. Savannah loves food.

5. I’m addicting to reading Karen Kingsbury books. I’m about to finish up the Firstborn series, and my library doesn’t have the last one right now. erg!

6. Spitting sunflower seeds is much fun. Not in the car, of course. The highlight of the trip for me was at a little league baseball game with Mark, spitting seeds at each other and laughing like we were little high school kids in love.