In the past we have always stayed at my Granny's house but a couple of years ago she messed up her back pretty bad and is now living with my aunt and her family. So, needless to say, her house has been sold. It was so strange not staying there but the convent that my aunt Mary Jo was a member of owns a house in the town where my dad grew up and they use it for when people come into town for various reasons. They were so kind to let us stay there for a few days.
So, Friday the 18th, Max and Abby both had a ball game at 6:45 and John and I didn't want them to miss too many games so we decided to leave afterwards. I had cleaned and packed all day so the van was loaded and ready to go.
By the time the games were over and we came home to let the kids change into their pj's it was 9:00 when we finally got on the road. our plan was to go to Charlotte and spend the night at John's parents' house then leave in the morning to make the "supposed" 9 hour trip to Indiana.
It took the kids awhile to conk out but they finally did (thankfully) and we made it to Charlotte sometime after midnight.
A funny story...when we got out of the van to go in the house, Max happened to look at the house next door. He saw the neighbor lady looking out the window. Apparently she must not have been at her best at 1am because it scared Max to death! He could not go to sleep because he was afraid that she saw us and was going to come get us. We tried to reassure him that she probably just couldn't sleep and was worried when she saw a car drive up the neighbor's driveway so late at night. She wanted to make sure we weren't strangers.
Max could not be convinced that she was harmless and therefore John ended up having to lay on the floor in the room and leave the light on. It took Max about 30 minutes of worry, crying, and nail biting before he finally crashed.
Needless to say, Jack and Charlotte got a good laugh out of it :)
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