Out of Sorts

Things have been pretty crazy lately, here in the South.  Alex and I are preparing to move back to our old house and you wouldn't know it by looking at my house.  That's to say that packing is not something we do well.  But anyways, we received a call a few weeks ago that Alex's Grandmother passed away so we were figuring out the best way to get up to Nantucket. Fly up? Leave the kids? Drive???  It's quite a long drive.  It's technically 18 hours, but with traffic it ends up being 2 days on the road.  Because we didn't want to spend $2500 on plane tickets, we opted for the drive.  This is a drive we've done many times and you think we'd be better at it.  Our plan...drive as far as we can and then stop overnight. 

Well, all of us besides Alex were sick when we made the trek. All with various sorts of a sinus gunk that had everybody hacking away in the back of the car.  Needless to say, good attitudes were not that apparent.  However, what can you expect of a 4 year old, 2 and 11 month old.  While Alex got to enjoy the task of driving, I was the car entertainer.  Quite hard to do when you're coughing yourself and have half a voice. 

But we made it up in time for the ferry and were at the house by dinner.  We had great weather and although the circumstances made it tough to enjoy Nantucket, we were grateful for the relatives we saw and the time away from home.

This is a picture of Alex's cousin, Jodie, with James and Olivia.