After Ben's parents left the morning of the 31st, I went into get ready for meetings mode.
This week would be Ben's first week ever staying at home with Mallory overnight and being soley responsible for her for multiple days in a row. Tuesday night through Friday evening to be precise.
I wanted to get everything I could possibly think of together and laid out and in one spot for him so it was as easy as possible. But, of course there had to be a wrench thrown into all that.....Mallory started coughing.
I hate coughing more than anything! It's the first time she's really been sickish since she had RSV in Feb. She's had some sniffles and cough from teething but you could tell this wasn't teething, mainly because she gave it to me too : )
It didn't seem like it was developing into much more than a cold so I restocked her medicine for breathing treatments and started those twice a day to help prevent it from getting any worse, left specific directions with Ben and left him to deal with it all.
After I got her in bed Tuesday night at 8 pm I headed out to Nashville. My flight left at 6:30 Wednesday morning and I didn't want to get up at 3 am to make it to Nashville, so I opted to stay near the airport.
Flights on Wednesday were actually on time. Normal flight from Nashville to Memphis and then on to Wichita. Got there and headed to Hesston for meetings.
Ben's first night with Mallory seemed to go fairly well but she was a little warm when he picked her up from Mrs Carole's so he gave her some infant motrin, but other than that it wasn't seeming to get any worse.
Thursday morning he was worried she was getting worse so I had him just call the Dr and take her in. Nothing appeared to be too off and her lungs still sounded pretty clear so it was just more of the same with the breathing treatments. So the good daddy that he is, he stayed home with her the rest of the day Thursday.
By Friday she was feeling more like herself and she went back to Mrs Carole's and I was excited to get home and meet them at Mom and Dad's Friday evening early.
I had forgotten that my flight home was not through Memphis like normal, I had to book through Atlanat, which I like flying through about as much as Chicago.
My flight that should have left Wichita at 12:30 was delayed until almost 2 which meant I would have missed the connection in Atlanta to Nashville so I ended up just changing flights all together which instead of getting into Nashville around 4:30 was now going to be 8 pm. Yuck.
So I got to Atlanta on the "new" flight on time and found my way to the next gate, which I found it odd that there was a flying ear of corn over the waiting area:
We were supposed to leave Atlanta at like 8 pm Eastern and get to Nashville by 8 pm Central. We got on the plane on time but then they had to work on the brakes on the landing gear, so we sat on the plane for a good 30 or 40 minutes before they deemed it working and sent us on the way.
The actual flight time from Atlanta to Nashville was only 37 minutes, so we had already taken longer to leave than it was going to take us to get there.
So the pilot comes on and says the "get ready to descend into Nashville" and normally in like 5-10 minutes you are on the ground. You could tell we had descended but were still probably 5000 feet for so and not going any lower. We were circling around Nashville. Which was odd, this isn't THAT busy of an airport. I know somethings up because this just isn't "normal" flight routine. The pilot finally comes on and says something about there's been a delay and we we should be able to land in around 10 more minutes. Well another 20 or so pass, still hovering somewhere above Nashville flying around. Then he comes on again and says we will circle around again and land. I don't remember how much longer we circled around but we FINALLY landed. It was now around 10:15 pm.
Once we landed the pilot told us only then that there was some problem with one of the wing flaps and they were trying to figure that out and Nashville wanted us on the long run way because obviously the flaps are important for landing and it gave the fire trucks and ambulances plenty of time to line up along the long run way. Real comforting. Thankfully we averted disaster. I think I'll pass on flying for a little while.
So, there was no seeing Mallory when I got home since she was long since asleep and I felt like crap from the cold she had given me. Which is still lingering a week later.....
Just to make matters a tiny bit worse, my luggage didn't come out at Nashville. So I and about 3 others got in line at the baggage are of Delta behind these other 2 non-english speaking families who were obviously not getting anywhere fast with their luggage. I probably stood in line for a good 30 minutes with no one moving with this lovely man from Delta came walking up rolling my suitcase. It had been lost somewhere in the depths of the plane or airport, or who knows, it could have fallen off the conveyor belt, but he found it and that meant I could finally get in my vehicle and drive the hour home.
I arrive home, sick, tired and mentally drained around midnight. I spent roughly 14 hours traveling to try to get home from Wichita. To drive, it would have only been about 9, maybe 10 hours. I did read the new Nicholas Sparks book, the whole thing, during the trip. Not a bad book, but none of his are bad.
I was supposed to go to Owensboro for the Junior League Rummage Sale on Saturday for my 9:30 am shift, but between this trip from hell and feeling awful, I just opted to not go. I felt bad about it, it's the biggest fund raiser we have, but I would have been pretty useless the way I felt, so I napped.
Back to Owensboro on Sunday to get ready for another week of travel for me and Ben.
Ben left out Monday for Springfield, MO for a regional meeting and I left Tuesday for Louisville for my last meeting as President of the Agribusiness Association of Kentucky meeting. Mom picked up Mallory from Mrs Carole's Tuesday afternoon and they headed to Elkton for the next few days.
My meeting went well and I happily headed to Mom and Dad's Thursday afternoon to pick up munchkin. She was napping when I arrived and I don't know if she didn't sleep long enough but she was about as crabby as I had ever seen her Thursday afternoon! Thankfully once we started home in the vehicle she was fine, but man oh man did she wake up on the wrong side of the pack and play!!
So now we are getting ready for another upcoming weekend, it's opening weekend for gun/deer season, so another trip to Elkton is in store for us.
And here's a nugget of information, we will see if you guys actually read my entire blog or just dig for pictures, but it's official now, we are moving back to Elkton and sooner than any of us anticiapted.
I got a PO Box when I was there Thursday, we have a place to live while we build, we closed on some land a couple weeks ago that is very near Mom and Dad and we look to actually be back by mid December. We will put our house up sometime in December or first of the year and will not build until it sells but we've been given a cheap place to live so we do not have to wait to sell the house before moving back. It's all very exciting, and sad at the same time. I think the only thing I will really miss is Mrs. Carole, she's been so great with Mallory and I had all intentions of her being there until she was 3 and ready for pre-school. I never thought we would move this quickly. But, we've all cried about it, and hate that part, but there's so much other good that goes with moving, we will just have to come visit Mrs Carole as much as possible!
I'll get into more "moving" details in another post, but for us, we've moved so much, what's another time or two. The moving of actual stuff will be a slow progression, we will just have what we need and leave the house "staged" as much as possible for show/selling purposes......which tells me we have way too much crap that we can once again just leave it. I guess we are just weird like that.
So, we will soon be back in Todd County. Seems a little werid, I feel like I've been gone since High School, and that was 16 years ago, but I will be quite happy to not have to drive up and down Hwy 181 and 431 so much!!
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