I Need A Vacation From This Holiday
Posted By Kristabella on July 5, 2009
People, I’m tired. I need a vacation from a holiday weekend. I didn’t do most of things I would have liked to do on a three-day weekend, particularly a three-day weekend that followed four exhausting days in New Orleans. I didn’t sleep in once this weekend. NOT ONCE!
Things I did do:
- Sit in traffic
- Cursed the all-news radio station in Chicago for their lack of reporting on several HUGE accidents, which apparently didn’t happen until I set tire to the asphalt on the expressways.
- Cried a lot in traffic.
- Threw myself a pity party. In traffic.
- Almost screwed up my brother and sister in law’s plans to head downtown for a night away together, without the kids, because I was the babysitter and I was stuck in traffic. On a holiday. At 10 AM.
- Spent a whole day with my niece Skyler alone.
- Watched a lot of bad cartoons.
- But didn’t really mind because what Skyler wants, Skyler gets. Girl has me wrapped around her finger. AND KNOWS IT.
- Ate a lot of crap, not limited to pizza, cupcakes, donut holes and ice cream.
- I ate most of these things for breakfast.
- So did Skyler. Which is probably why I am her favorite Auntie.
- Met a dude that my SIL and her friend have been trying forever to set me up with.
- Drank a lot of beer.
- Forgot to put sunblock on and got really sunburned. I really wanted the skin to match my shirt.
- Played volleyball in the pool for what seemed like hours.
- Decided I can never have a puppy, even a cute one. Say what you will about cats, but they don’t whine.
- Got asked by my nephew Noah how old I was. He said I looked 20 and then without skipping a beat said “Well how come you’re so old and aren’t married?”
- I didn’t have the heart to tell him I’m almost 32. Mostly because I didn’t want to witness his jaw drop to the floor when someone was THIRTY ONE and not married.
- Overall, had a really, really good weekend.
Do you see why I’m so tired? So I’m off to bed early. Like I’m writing this and the sun isn’t even down yet and I’m hitting the hay, with the sweet sounds of Field of Dreams lulling me to sleepytime. If you build it, he will come.
But before I leave you, please tell me why this is a good way to travel through an airport with a child.
About the author
Some parents should not have created spawn, case in point: Arial and I sat at the mall on Saturday and had a full discussion about why a parent was coddling a seven year old-ish child that was throwing a temper tantrum. For the life of us we couldn’t figure out why the child was crying because she did not appear injured, furthermore we were slack jawed ourselves when they offered to take her to the candy store. I’m not sure if it was myself or my eleven year old that said, “Candy is the last thing that kid needs!”
Love puppies, LOVE them and especially when they lay frog leg style.
Much, much better to have air dried feet than to stick those smelly critters in shoes! Besides, people like to tickle ’em. Right?
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Is that baby ATTACHED to that suitcase? Because that is awesome.
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No. Way. Did you really see that woman wheel that baby through the airport?
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That kid probably refused to walk, or, maybe doesn’t even know how. Still, very creative.
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is that all the information we are getting about the dude? 😉
also…those kids are so lucky to have an aunt like you! also…dogs are totally more awesome than cats (NO HAIRBALLS)
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I wish someone would pull me through the airport like that. While I’m holding a sippy cup full of vodka.
you have some major catching up on your sleeping in to do! I whined for 3 days when I didn’t get to sleep in. It wasn’t pretty.
And FYI-that is an awesome way to tote a child thru the airport! I wish I’d have thought of it!!
Now appearing…Skyler in the musical “CATS”!!!!!!!!! That’s what that thing on her face reminds me of.
Where in god’s name did you get that picture of the baby in the airport?
I beg to differ: Scott’s cat? He WHINES like a two-year-old who’s just had his animal crackers AND blankie stripped from him at once. So much so and so loud that I haven’t slept for TWO NIGHTS. We even locked him in the garage and could still hear his pleas. Stupid cat. Am about to feed him to the pit bull down the street. If there were a pit bull, that is.
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Hey. Kudos to the woman who decided to get inventive enough to strap the kid to the carry-on. As long as she doesn’t put him through the x-ray machine, I think we’re in the clear. (OMG, WTF?!?)
Dude, have you ever tried to carry your 18 month old child through the airport? Plus his carseat, which you need for him to ride on the plane? Plus your diaper bag, filled to capacity with toys, food, diapers and clothes for the kid? Plus a stroller, since you have to get the kid from the parking garage through ticketing through security through the terminal and onto the plane? (Those kids may not look heavy, but try carrying a wiggling toddler and all that other crap a couple hundred yards while judgmental people without children are eyeing you.) Do you have any luggage that you also need to carry? What about carry-on luggage for your own needs? How many hands do you have?
Any piece of equipment that makes it easier to carry your kid and leave the stroller behind is fricking genius, if you ask me.
We went on an international trip with two adults and two children under 3 last year that required four suitcases, two carseats, three carry-on bags and a stroller. Two adults do not have enough hands to carry all that plus hold onto two kids. We ended up buying two huge suitcases, packing everyone’s stuff into them, paying $$$$ to check them. We bought two products, one that strapped the carseats onto the carry-on luggage,and one that turned the car seat into a stroller, so each kid now riding in the carseat. We ditched the stroller and bought a cheap one when we arrived. So even with bare-bones amount for traveling, we still had one rolling luggage, two carseats, one bag of stuff for kids and one bag of stuff for us.
I think Lisa covered it. 😉
Now, about that dog. HOW cute is he? I like the color of your shirt. Your arm? Not so much. Looks all hurty and shit.
Ice cream for breakfast will make you MY favorite Auntie, too.
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I’m cracking up at that kid attached to the suitcase – hopefully she didn’t try to check him. And the picture of your niece in that mask? Adorable! She managed to remove from my mind the horrible creepiness that I associate with masks like that thanks to Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. So give her a hug for me! I can see that not all masks are evil.
And the guy? ???
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OMG, I think the parents are brilliant. I know you think it’s crazy, but I think it’s brilliant. And Skyler seriously could not get any cuter. I hope you used some aloe vera on that burn. <3
Is Skyler one of Michael Jackson’s kids?
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Maybe that kid is in a flight attendant training program and is learning how to put the tray in the full, locked, and upright position.
I’m sorry, but that suitcase/kid seat rocks! I mean, if I wasn’t worried about strangers spilling hot coffee, booze, and dippin’ dots on my kid; I would rock that in an airport!
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You are such a good auntie. They are lucky to have you 🙂
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I have seen car seats with turned into stroller thingies, but I have never seen a little folding chair like that. I like the baby’s little Cubs jacket.
So what happened with the dude?
Your arm really does match your shirt. That is bad.
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what is that contraption? how could that be a good way to go through the airport? odd. i am so glad you took a photo of it!
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