{"id":3869,"date":"2014-02-24T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/?p=3869"},"modified":"2014-02-23T12:52:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T17:52:11","slug":"sister-weekend-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/sister-weekend-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Sister Weekend, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems like every time we’re supposed to get together with my family, Lilian and I find some new<\/a> and\/or horrible<\/a> way of getting sick and have to cancel all of our plans. It had been months<\/em> since I’d seen all of my sisters, so we decided to rectify this situation by meeting up on Presidents Day Weekend.<\/p>\n

We’re a relatively far-flung family, so we split the difference and rented a house in Old Saybrook, CT. It should have been an easy drive, but Kristian and I left just a little<\/em> too late and ended up getting caught in a snowstorm. As in, we were driving along on the highway and all of a sudden we’re watching cars sliding off the road left and right. There was a state trooper fishtailing right in front of us. Good times.<\/p>\n

Even that wouldn’t have been too bad (we have snow tires and Kristian is a great driver), but Lilian woke up from her nap… in what I an only refer to as a mood<\/em>. As in there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth and throwing of toys. I ended up flinging myself into the backseat in a desperate attempt to amuse her\/distract her from her agony. I made faces, I gave her snacks, I invented games. But she was having none<\/em> of it. I won’t go into the depths that I plumbed in my desperate attempt to make her happy.<\/p>\n

Let’s just say that we arrived at our rental house with a soaking wet, half-naked baby. And my family was a little<\/em> concerned.<\/p>\n

“Why is your baby soaking wet? And… half-naked?”<\/p>\n

“No comment. DON’T JUDGE ME!”<\/p>\n

But, hey, worth it. I was just so happy to be with my family, all under one roof. We had a glorious dinner, even if I was forced to decline the ice cream afterwards (damn you, diet bet<\/a>!). Lilian got to play with her cousins. I got to make fun of my sisters.<\/p>\n

We then proceeded to have what you might call a “rough” night. As in, Lilian woke up sometime in the middle of the night and screamed and screamed and wouldn’t go back to sleep again. I think it was all the ploughs going up and down the street. Plus, she was probably a little weirded out to be sleeping in a strange location. Normally, we would have done some things to soothe her, and then put her back into her crib. She would have fussed for a bit, but eventually fallen back asleep. But we were in close quarters with nine other people, and we didn’t want to disturb them. So, we kept trying other things.<\/p>\n

Long story short, we should have just let her fuss herself back to sleep. All we did was prolong everybody’s misery.<\/p>\n

(You try letting your kid scream in a house full of people).<\/p>\n

The good thing about having a rough night in a house full of people? The next morning, when you look like death warmed over, there is a high likelihood that someone will take pity on you and offer to watch your child while you go back to bed for a nap.<\/p>\n

(My stepdad is truly a king among men).<\/p>\n

After a nice long nap, Kristian I woke up to the sweet smells of brunch. As part of our diet bet, my sister and I agreed that we could have carb-y breakfast (pancakes, french toast, waffles, etc) once a month. I was happy that I decided that my monthly breakfast would be sister weekend!<\/p>\n

After cleanup, Lilian was more than ready for a nap. Kristian decided to hang out with her at the house, and I went off with the rest of the family to check out the seashore. There wasn’t a beach we could walk on, but there was a little area right on the water where we had ourselves a snowball fight.<\/p>\n

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I don’t have any pictures (I was too busy having fun), but we were lucky enough to meet a local family that was sledding on a nearby hill. They were kind enough to share their sleds with us. I am now really looking forward to taking Lilian sledding when she’s a little bigger.<\/p>\n

We headed back to the house, where Lilian was just waking up. We spent the rest of the evening having quality family time. We lit a fire in the fireplace. It was super cozy.<\/p>\n

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The weekend was over all too soon. A last little bit of family time, and then we all had to head back home. I hope that we can do this again soon. I love spending time with everyone.<\/p>\n

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We all managed to catch the same nasty cold, so I’ve spent the last week or so recuperating. Worth it<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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