I’m struggling. I could very easily complain right now. It would be so, so easy. But I’ll try to give thanks instead, like this:
I get to buy all new clothes while we’re here in Branson! Even underclothes, which I really needed anyway. And hubby will get to buy some new casual clothes, and Bethany will get new dresses.
Because I somehow arrived in Branson with nothing but the clothes on my back. Even my dirty laundry was in my bag, not with the children’s laundry. Perry will have his conference clothes when he flies in this afternoon, but I don’t think he wants to lounge on the lake shore in a long sleeve button down and khakis. Bethany has an extra outfit or two in the diaper bag, but those won’t go far.
I’m not assigning blame until I can confirm that our bag was left at our most recent hosts’ home. The alternative is that it was stolen from right under our noses while we watched fireworks out front, during the 2 minutes that the back door of our condo was unlocked while the inside was unoccupied. But that seems highly unlikely since the camera in plain sight on the table was still there when I went around back to let myself in.
On the bright side, the vacation can only get better from here, right?
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Want me to make you feel better. We just returned last night from a week long trip to see our oldest son graduate basic. Once out of state my dh hit a gas pump with our trailer shutting down the gas station! Once on the road my fil got a flat on his trailer – in backing up to help we got a flat on our van. Our crank stripped so we could not get the trailer off the van to get the spare or jack the van easily. We got to our campground and got the last spot it was so slanted when we first leveled the trailer it fell and hit the water line (luckily it was a tough pipe the trailer not so tough)! We got to family day the next morning only to find out they did it an hour early and we arrived as they came out! We did make graduation the next day! My fil got another flat on the way home WE STAYED PUT! Even after all this it could have been WORSE – I am sure of it! I guess the gas station could have blown up!!
I am very glad to be home!
Uhhh… you all are making me second guess our vacation road trip to D.C. this September. I guess this will make good fodder if you ever write a book about the family.
Hey, at least it wasn’t a child, a purse, or the laptop left behind..
They would be much harder to replace.
Oh no! I mean, uh, good for you!
Oh no! I hope there’s a Goodwill nearby!
Who knows, it could be the highlight of your trip?
*hugs*
*lots and lots of hugs*
Enjoy the shopping as I know how far between it is we Mom’s get ourselves anything. My Mom bought me a new nightgown, slippers and pool coverup when visiting them in FL. I feel like royalty, LOL!
We met Perry in Boston! I hadn’t caught up on the blog since June 29 so I kept looking for you and the kids as I was looking forward to meeting you. You did a FANTASTIC job on his gloves. Wow! I am totally impressed. We hope our paths cross one day. I wasn’t able to snap a picture of him but I just posted several others.
Happy shopping?!?!
I will not pretend to be mildly upset that I ignored my computer for several days and you were practically in my back yard! *sigh*
We once left DD’s suitcase at home when visiting grandparents. Luckily, we did bring the dirty cloth diapers, so once I washed them, we did have diapers for her, at least. It was winter, so we made a trip into town (small town, dollar stores are the best you get) and got some, well, interesting outfits for her. We laugh at those Christmas pictures to see how she is dressed.