no more traveling, please!

I used to love traveling, but anymore it just exhausts me. We took two trips last week. On Thursday we went to Pennsylvania to visit my grandparents, who are preparing to move here, since much of the family is here and they are needing a bit more attention from family these days. It was an out and back trip all in one day, but it wasn't too bad, at only around 4 hours each way. We left around 9 in the morning and got back at about 10 that night. In between we had a really nice time visiting at their house, for what will probably be the last time I'm there, as I don't see us returning before they move. (Not that I'm particularly upset about never going there again. The house they are currently living in isn't "Grandma's House", and I have no great attachment to it.) Jason and Tom helped my grandfather move some boxes and heavy items from the basement into the garage, and we collected some of the smaller items that they want to give us.

This weekend we drove to Indiana to visit Jason's brother and his wife and their boys, who live in Valparaiso. They had a birthday party for the boys, whose birthdays are about 5 weeks apart in September and October. So we went, since none of them had met Gavin yet, and we haven't been to visit them since Thanksgiving last year. We had a very lovely time, and just adored spending time with our nephews. They are such sweet critters. Little Ethan ran up to me when he first saw me and climbed right up into my lap, with a look of sheer delight on his face. It couldn't have been more cute.

We returned home around six this evening, and now I'm all traveled out. I can't sleep, despite how tired I am. So here I sit, working on a design prototype for some contract work I happened into recently. I haven't done any significant web design in ages, and it shows; I am very rusty and finding myself very short on ideas.

Posted by allison at September 26, 2004 11:23 PM