We’re home. It was so great to spend time with family, and we have so many happy memories of the past weeks – but man does it feel good to be home.
The peanut was a champ. His routine was completely turned upside down. He got woken up from almost every nap he tried to take – usually in a totally different place from where he went to sleep, he experienced a million new things, started rolling over at will – he took two long plane rides, and many long trips in the car – and he never once complained. He kept his easy going, happy demeanor the entire trip. Auntie Dani, who has three boys of her own, even commented that he is the happiest baby she has ever met. People in front of us on the 6.5 hour flight home turned around as we were deplaning and said, ‘wow – we didn’t even know there was a baby behind us!’. Honestly, that trip home has always been brutal – but it was almost easier with Brendan because he made it more fun. I guess that shouldn’t surprise me at this point. Then we got stuck in traffic on the last stretch of car ride and it took us forever to actually make it back to Novato. Mommy and Daddy were close to loosing it, but Brendan remained calm, and as usual, taught us some valuable lessons. So we made the best of our time and took some notes on New Years Resolutions while we sat waiting. I’m usually more of a birthday resolution type of gal, but as Rob and I realized when we shared a quick kiss before drifting off to sleep about 3 minutes past the actual midnight marker: every moment is a new beginning. Why wait for official holidays to celebrate? If we recognize changes we can make to get even closer to the important things in life – why wait? Rob had some good ideas about how to spend more time and be closer to the important people in our lives – and predictably, my resolutions all center around slowing down, simplifying, leaving time and space for lazy moments with my family – and eating more vegetables. Along those lines, my carefully constructed plan was to get unpacked, get Christmas put away, to purge a bunch of stuff we no longer need – to get completely cleaned and organized and ready to start the week. But when we got home, we realized not only that we are tired, but that we aren’t quite ready for Christmas to be over. Now that the rushing and business (busy-ness) is over, we are relishing the time to sit by the tree and relax into the spirit of the holiday. So Christmas might stay up at our house for another week. And our neighbors just reminded us as they returned Rosie the fish (who seems to have packed on some holiday pounds, just like the rest of her family…) that the 12 days of Christmas actually don’t end until January 5th. The jury is still out, but I’m listening to Christmas music as I type – so if you knock on our front door this week, don’t be surprised if you’re welcomed by a festive Christmas wreath.
To sum up, it was a busy but happy holiday – and if we were grading Brendan for this trip he would get an A+ and 5 points extra credit. I can hear Brendan cracking up as he crinkles the Santa balloon in the living room – so it’s clearly time to go play.
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