When I get to London, it will be 7am, which is 2am New Jersey time and 11pm Seattle time. Nathan has been having a hard time going to sleep at night here (while we were in NJ briefly with Jeff's family) and I can only imagine what it will be like with the 5-8 hour time change from what he is used to. Christopher slept like a dream (in the 2 month old not-sleeping-through-the-night sense) last night, waking up for the first time after FIVE hours and then another 3 hours later. Nathan was up until 1am on Tuesday morning after a long 12 hours spent in the Sea-Tac S terminal, with only a BLESSED 1 1/2 hour nap. He almost instantly fell asleep with his head on my hip and although I got extremely uncomfortable and sore from trying not to be in his way as he slept. ANYTHING to keep that kiddo asleep and quiet! After a 3 hour 15 minute flight, we landed in Minnesota for an hour and then headed back into the air for just over 2 hours as we headed to Philadelphia. Nathan didn't want anything to do with sitting up in his own seat with a seat belt. He wanted to cuddle with daddy and drift off to sleep. After screaming and crying for a few minutes, the flight attendant let us do just that. The last hour of the flight I was ready to die and wondered again and again when it would end and how I was going to do the long flight across the pond. When we arrived in Philadelphia, the pack 'n play we had gate checked in Seattle and then again in Minnesota had mysteriously disappeared and couldn't be located anywhere. We finally got it back this morning on our doorstep. After a long drive back to New Jersey yesterday, we were able to get Nathan to nap for four hours and Jeff and I napped for five. Last night all of us slept for twelve hours.
Life has been crazy.
Today as we were packing for the MILLIONTH time, I felt so much relief realizing that really this is the LAST time we would have to repack and thin out our belongings for quite a while. That process has been exhausting and tedious and reminds me yet again how much STUFF we can accumulate and hold on to. At the same time, I found great joy as I looked at my clothing, including my socks!!! It was so fun to see MY THINGS again!
And now, tomorrow, it all starts again. For the last time for a while. We leave here at noon, hoping to get to JFK (which Jeff's dad HATES driving to) several hours early for our 6:30pm flight. We get to experience the joy of jet lag with two kiddos after a 7 1/2 hour trans-Atlantic flight (not to mention the flight itself- SHUDDER). We get to deal with customs and somehow getting us and our belongings home. We get to deal with getting the final housewares for our flat and trying to get back to normal. We won't have the Internet at first. We don't have cell phones or even a home phone. It should be an adventure...
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