true boy tales

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Well, its Saturday evening, approximately 4 days before I have to be packed and completely ready for our trip. We leave for Curacao first thing (6:00am flight...uugh) Thursday morning. I am a procrastinator at heart. Always have been, always will be. So I'm trying to wrap my mind around the fact that it really is time to start getting things ready. I just have no clue where to start! Tonight I'm exhausted and tomorrow is Super Bowl Sunday with somewhere in the neighborhood of 40-50 people coming over, so realistically speaking, I'm not going to touch a suitcase until Monday, probably at 1 o'clock when Bennett goes down for a nap.
Right now I'm at about 70% excited, 30% apprehensive for our 10 day trip away from Bennett. I feel so blessed to be able to take a trip like this in February and can't wait to bask in the sun and ocean and reconnect with my husband but that is a long time away from my baby boy! Both sets of grandparents are going to take wonderful care of him and will be great replacement mommies and daddies for the week but sometimes a boy just needs his momma! I hope those moments are few and far between and short lived while we're gone.
So far I think we've only had 2 nights in a row away from him. If anyone has any tips or advice, I'd love to hear it! I bought him a couple presents to open while we're gone and I'd like to record a short video of Jon and me talking to him to email to our parents so they can play it for him. Oy vey, I need to start a list. That always clears my mind!

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Jennifer HandsakerFebruary 2, 2009 at 10:34 AM
The great thing about the age of Bennett is that it will be a an easier for him to be away from you than you from him!
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Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan: An incredibly haunting medical memoir. There's a lot of medical info to read through but I didn't find those parts boring and difficult to wade through. I thought she shared just enough. But if you like a book that's easy to read, this isn't it. I couldn't get this one out of my mind for a very long time. An unforgettable true story.
Me Before You by JoJo Moyes and What Alice Forgot by Lianne Moriarty: I'm just going to lump these two together because they're in the same category. I'm calling them deep chick lit. A perfect summer book to get lost in. Read them. Both. I promise you from the bottom of my heart that you will LOVE them. (I liked them both way better than Where'd You Go, Bernadette.)
These Is My Words by Nancy E. Turner: Most of my favorite books have a main character with a whole lotta grit. I wasn't quite sure about this one when I first started it but, oh, did it sweep me in and not let me go til the last page. I also love a book that makes me "emote out loud" as I like to think of it. This one had me smiling all the way through and crying my eyes out at the end. It follows a young girl through her life in the Arizona Territories in the late 1800's. A must read for anyone who likes Historical Fiction.
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