Trips

Oh good, blogger is back to English.

Jeff wants to take Mandy to see a Sumo match in January. This match is in Tokyo and would include staying a couple of nights in a hotel. Which would mean me and Lily home alone for a few days while the big kids get to go on an adventure. We are debating going as a whole family or just those two going. Most probably it will be just those two. Sucks for me. Lily and I always get left behind.

However, in February I am going all by myself to America to see to do the leg work of finding our new home. I get to ride a train, fly on two planes, stay in a hotel, rent a car and drive around AMERICA all by myself for a week, and then go home. Jeff is going to take the week off from work and take care of the girls. Sure hope he learns how to cook something gluten-free for Lily. I think she might get tired of peanut butter on bananas and hamburgers with cheese. But you never know. I cannot tell you how excited I am. I haven't been all by myself for a whole week in... Well by that time it will be 16 years! I wonder if my head will explode or if I will cut the meat of innocent bystanders? I wonder what it will be like to fly on an airplane without a kid? Scary? Lonely? Boring?

I feel a little bad for Jeff, but not really. I wonder who will be more frazzled when I return Jeff or Lily? Or Mandy? When Jeff takes care of Lily the two of them butt heads a bit. Lily and I have worked out the details of who is boss, but she is still not convinced that her dad is Alpha, so she fights him on everything all the time. Drives him crazy. His approach is to be a hard ass all the time, a hard ass who gives in a lot. My approach is to give her what she wants most of the time, but when I say NO I NEVER change my mind. Don't care if you head pops off and rolls down the street I will never give. He thinks I need to be firm more often I think he needs to be firm less often. Somewhere in the middle is probably best. But, Lily and Jeff at the end of a few hours together, they are usually both ready for a break. He, he, hee!

Jeff's future work mates in Mississippi are so nice and helpful. I am excited to meet them.