The Traveling Duo

Summertime, and the livin's easy.

This past week, MM and PP were in town for a week and upon their return to SC, they were bringing P and J back with them on their first plane ride. There were a few reasons for this adventure, the main one was so they didn’t have to ride in the car for 12+ hours on the way up to NC/SC next week. We are headed to Mimi and Uncle Jack’s house for Bryan and Tiffany’s wedding weekend extravaganza and would like to get there in one day (so I don’t burn through that much vacation time). We traveled with Owen around this age (16 months) and it wasn’t too pretty, so we thought having MM and PP take them back to SC for a week would be awesome, plus we are getting some quality alone time with O.

The mornings have been really weird only having to get one little guy up, changed/potty time, and fed. We miss Parker and Jack but were able to chat with them last night via Skype so that was nice. I think Owen kinda missed all the usual excitement (noise) in the house. As soon as everyone was dropped off at the airport, Owen asked us in a super sad tone: "Where brothers going? Where brothers going?" I'm pretty sure Jen lost whatever she had left when he said that.

MM is doing a great job with texts and pictures letting us know what they are doing, who they are visiting, and what they are being fed. Somehow, we didn’t get a pic of Jack covered in Desitin (again) and having to call Poison Control (again)…hey, I guess it happens to everyone. It looks like they are having fun, and I am sure that MM and PP are getting exhausted. Check out MawMaw’s recent status update on Facebook – “Joanne Spachman Rivel wants to take a moment to salute my daughters-in-law and our wonderful sons - and all young parents who juggle kids and make it look easy. I'm taking a nap now.” I guess that sums it up…

We are definitely enjoying the alone time with Owen, but we miss our guys and can’t wait to see them in a few days.

Sidenote: How did parents leave their kids before there was technology to know what was going on every second of every day? Between picture messages, video chats, texts, and Facebook updates, it would seem really weird if we had to pick up the phone to know what our kids were doing. I know, I'm a nerd.