"Drifting Falling, Floating Weightless, Coming Coming Home"

We're home.
45 minutes to the airport
$75 total fees for "excess" luggage
2 1/2 hr flight
2 1/2 hr layover
1000 fruit snacks and oreos (thank you Grandma, they saved our lives...well you saved the lives of your crabby grandchildren)

1 hour flight
1/2 hour fighting to get our car from long term parting (there are two identical lots, but the one we were parked in charged $70 instead of $30)
2 1/2 hr drive home
4 with food poisoning
1 ear infection
2 sets of pink eye
52 degree house full of Christmas paper that we didn't clean up in our rush out the door to the airport Christmas morning.
takeout dinner
hot chocolate
a bath
a fire
hot chocolate
warm jammies
sleeping children
We're home.

We had a whole week to visit with the Willy's!
The kids were spoiled by grandparents, got to play with cousins and fun aunties and uncles, eat all the junk food a little kid could want, throw up the junk food all over Grandma's bed, stay up super late, watch movies, play in the snow, play with Grandma's never ending supply of really cool toys, go to a discovery museum, see dozens of Christmas lights, and learn to love the family doggies.

Considering that no one has felt well for about 4 days, the kids woke up happy as can be this morning. It was 60 degrees outside, so we went for a walk and watched the birds (who needs a museum? drop by our yard and you'll see plenty of wildlife in their natural habitat...if you show up after hours, you are sure to get a peek at special exhibit of two adults happy to walk around the house in their underwear, curtains closed or not. Good thing our neighbors have old eyes.). After we visited with our neighbor friends for a bit, we came home and made these DELICIOUS (and healthy..toot toot.) smoothies to go with our (not so healthy) frozen pizza lunch.

Citrus Blend Smoothies
(I don't really measure, but here is an estimate of what we put in there)
1 1/2 c frozen pineapple
3/4 cup frozen peaches
3 heaping tablespoons vanilla yogurt
1 tsp lemon juice
1/3 c orange juice
1/3 c nonfat milk
Blend.
Forget that the blender is going while you haul more leftover Christmas paper trash out to the curb and flag down the garbage truck before it drives away.
Wash stinky trash hands.
Wash hands again because you still smell the trash on them.
Smell butt of toddler and realize that the smell is coming from her diaper, not from your trash hands.
Change really stinky diaper.
Wish you didn't have to store stinky diaper in your garage for 6 days until the trash is collected again.
Wash hands a third time.
Pour smoothies and sip with pink straws
Enjoy!

Thanks to those who keep up with our "daily journal-ing of irrelevant nonsense."
It's not irrelevant to us.
I'm glad we can share our adventures with family and friends who feel the same way.
Happy New Year to all!