Gracie and Bailey's Mom: Trying Travels

I apologize for not updating in awhile but we have been living out of our suitcases the last couple of weeks. We first went to the McFarland Family Reunion "see post below" and then came home and I worked for a week at the Hospice Inpatient Unit before we headed to the Beach House for a week. We are now home until Thursday when we will head to Macon to celebrate my parent's 40th Anniversary so as you can see we have done lots of packing and unpacking! I titled this post "trying travels" because our beach trip wasn't quite what we had hoped and we kind of felt like we were doomed during the trip as the story begins....The first full day Gracie ended up a stomach bug and a high fever. She pretty much just layed on the sofa all day and snuggled with her mommy. Two days later we were not surprised to see that Bailey had the same bug and fever. We thought all the sickness had gotten out of our system until the next day when Bailey woke up with a rash all over his body. The rash was one of the worst that I had ever seen so we headed to the pediatrics after hours. We found out he was allergic to something in the beach house and with a quick dose of Benadryl he was feeling better. We both took a sigh and I thought "what else could go wrong this trip." Well...just when the thought ran across my mind our car literally started shaking and the check engine light came on. We were in middle of no where with a car full of cold groceries, a sick baby and it was 101 degrees outside. We pulled over and had to call a tow truck in the fear of making the problem worse by driving the car. Thank goodness we had Preston's dad to come and rescue us and the help of the family with the twins when we were paying one more attention then the other because they were sick. I think honestly what was the most frustrating was that our babies behavior seemed to be horrible. It is very frustrating as a parent when you know that your children are not acting how the normally do and it presents to others like your family is out of control. Looking back we realized that they were completely sleep deprived with the time change and the lack of shade in the room to the bright early sun. We were SO happy to finally make it home that Preston and simply stood still in our house and thanked God for it's peacefulness and feeling of security. We are happy to report that since being home the twins are healthy,back to sleeping 12 hours a night, taking wonderful naps and behaving more like they typically do with respect. I do not want to sound like we were ungrateful for our vacation in any way. We certainly had good moments and we were so excited for the twins to meet their cousins; James, Justin and Jackson. It was wonderful to spend time together and with family. For now we will treasure our good memories and thank God that we all made it home safely and soundly.

This is the way we spent much of our vacation, letting sick babies snuggle