weekend from hell

Sunndraggon

Me and my mom took Carson to meet my aunt and grandmother. Aunt has brain cancer and was given 6-12 months,so needless to say, we were not expecting a fun weekend. We drove from Raleigh to Myrtle Beach. Carson was a dream baby. She got fussy about 45 minutes from my aunts but was easily soothed by my mom. She was all happy and smiley all weekend, ate and slept great, napped like a dream, and was able to stick to her normal schedule.Everyone was impressed with how happy and easy she is and how content she is. I was such a proud mama.

 

On the other i was nagged about her not having socks on.....in the 90 degree temps! I was ridiculed about her being swaddled. I was laughed at because i brought her monitor with me, and her sound machine. This all came from my grandmother, who proceeded to go on about how disrepectful I am when I told her that these things obviously work well for us. Granted after about the 100th time I basically said  "she is my baby, these things work for us, she is happy, you need to butt out"

 

My aunt, not the sick one, thinks i am weird because Carson is on a schedule and has a routine, and I don'tplop her in front of the TV. Umm, all your kids and grandkids are MR and ADHD!!!

 

So now we are heading home. We hit a ton of traffin out of MB because it was Harley bike week. The Carson poops so we stop to change her (i manage to put my hand right into the poop) and eat. She poops a second time before we leave McDonalds. She passes out before we get out of the parking lot. Then we run into terrible rain.I might as well have had the wipers off! It is so loud she wakes up but seems content. She starts getting fussy and we plan to stop at SOuth of the Border to feed her. But we never get there because the GPS took us home some strnage way through backwoods Deliverance country! So i had no idea where I was, there was no wehre to stop, Carson was wailing big time, and it was raining down cats and dogs. We finally pulled over at some shack church so mom coulf get in the back and feed her while we drove, but that was not working so then we stopped at some run donw little store to let her out he rseat a few minutes and then we got back on the road and mom was able to feed her. I was actually scared to stop anywhere!!! The 3 hours trip home took almost 5 hours!!

 

The driving home was a night

labooshki

Heya FB buddy! You are more brave than I will EVER be! I freak out if the trip is more than 45 minutes!

Mrs.Bible

Oh wow - so sorry you had to go through all of that...UGH...this is my main concern for doing a road trip...I just refuse.  If it longer than 2 hours - there is a flight there I am sure...lol...

Sunndraggon

It was carsons longest trip so far. She did well for the most part. But DH and I were planning to drive to NY this summer with her........might need to rethingk that! But then the thought of flying with all that grea is crwzay too!