Booked it, packed it, f*&(&(*ed off...
Well, I've done the first, most of the second (calculating daily what I can pack away next), not yet the third.
I've booked flights for Monday (a week today) to Nella's city (which is about 3 or 4 hours from NLA/New Agency City). The plan (and you know what they say about plans) is that I fly with Baby Spouse that day, arriving late afternoon Central Time, and go straight to an airport motel where we both go to sleep. We would then see Nella and her parents the next few days, staying in a Suites type motel nearer the parents' home.
I am understandably pretty nervous about this. I'm nervous about flying with Baby Spouse, that he'll be very upset/not sleep, nervous about driving on my own in a big city that I don't know well (I'm no more nervious about doing this on the wrong side of the road though!), nervous about seeing them all, nervous that the baby will be late and we'll be hanging around for ages and ages, and of course very nervous that Nella will change her mind again.
Mr Spouse should be coming out after about a week (though if the baby is very late this just means we'll have even longer twiddling our thumbs and not doing very much, while Nella probably gets more and more fed up). I am trying to be a bit sensitive to her and not say every five minutes "so, any news?".
I have a feeling Nella thinks we are planning to come a bit earlier and also to fly immediately the baby is born, like we did last time - firstly we are still very fed up with her, and secondly it's not as easy to drop our lives this time as it was last time - so I'm not really looking forward to breaking it to her that we aren't coming as soon as she'd like, either.
On the other hand, it will be warm (no, it will be unbearably hot) and Baby Spouse loves swimming and the motel has a pool... And I've been looking up toddler swimming lessons, and library toddler story sessions, all that kind of thing, in NA City. We are likely to be there for longer this time than last time (it was 6 weeks last time but our home study wasn't completed 30 nanoseconds before travelling last time). We're trying to look on this as a little holiday.
3 comments:
Ooh! Very exciting and yes, I can quite see how this might make a person nervous. All will be well, all will be well, all will be well.
Much luck - I was just reading the last few posts, and this sounds like the kind of situation that would drive me over the edge! I am so unable to relinquish control like you have to in this situation. I hope everything works out in the easiest possible manner.
Good luck with the driving - but getting lost is difficult these days, with GPS available! You'll be just fine in that respect.
hope it's all going ok! Sorry for neglecting the blog, it all went downhill when they discontinued bloglines and then googlereader, I lost my conscience!
Fingers crossed for a healthy baby and not too traumatic time w Nella.
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