Another long night, and preparing for a trip.

I'm very excited, today we are leaving for only our second trip as family. We are only going about 95 miles away on a couples retreat. The nice thing is you can bring your kids, so I don't have to worry about not having anyone to watch Riley over the next severaly days. We finally got the call from the Chaplin yesterday that we are going so of course I am preparing. I am making sure that all or most of the laundry is done and put away, that our suitcases are packed and of course that we have a clean house to come home to. I only have a few short hours to finish this today as I have to pick up my DH at 2:45.

It doesn't help matters that I am thouroughly exhausted. Riley decided to wake up last night at 2:30 hearing her daddy shuffle around and get ready for work. For those of you who are wondering he doesn't normaly get up this early, just today for some training. I let her be and she went back to sleep. Then I hear her talking at 4, so I get up and go check on her. It was so cute, she saw me come in and quickly laid down like she new she wasn't supposed to be up. I gave her the passifire, rubbed her back for a few minutes and went to bed. My slumber only lasted about an hour and half because she was back up at 5:30. This time she was crying a little. So I go in her room once again pick her up sooth her and give her a bottle. After her bottle and a little rocking she was back out. So I'm off to bed again, and I hear her talking as soon as my head hit the pillow. At this point I just turned off the monitor, her room is right accross the hall from ours so if she is upset I will still here her. I wake up at 7 to her crying for about 2 minutes and she finally fell back asleep. She didn't fully wake up until about 9 this morning. Of course my body is still asking to go back to bed. Unfortunately to much to do in a short amount of time! I'm hoping she will go down for her nap soon so I can get more done. I also wish I knew why she keeps waking up in the middle of the night. She hasn't done this for months.

Hopefully these next few days will be enjoyable and we will get to do alot as a family. The island that we are going to is beautiful and the rooms we get are gorgeouse, we checked them out online last night. I will be bringing my laptop so hopefully I can keep you updated!

Kari