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Trip-trap
By ella | April 2, 2007
Last weekend we took a long-overdue trip to see Matthew’s parents. The journey should have taken us about five hours.
I had woken up feeling slightly nauseous. The cause? Possibly the prospect of a long car journey with two preschoolers and a baby. Seven and a half hours later, after sitting in traffic for the last two hours of the journey and controlling the urge to throw up every couple of minutes and trying to amuse the exhausted, crying baby in the back we arrived, fell out of the car, ate supper and fell into bed. The baby decided the travel cot was the most uncomfortable thing to sleep on EVER and decided he would come into the bed with us, but only after he decided to try and investigate every inch of this new territory. At one o’clock in the morning.
Two days later we did the same - only this time not quite so long - journey in reverse. If you asked the older boys what the highlight of their weekend with Grandma and Grandpa was they would tell you it was watching the Cars movie three times on each journey. If you asked me what the highlight of the weekend was I would tell you it was having a DVD player in the car.
Matthew’s father is, outwardly, the picture of health. It’s hard to imagine that he will not be with us for much longer. Saying goodbye was terrible because I don’t know how well he will be next time we take the boys.
Ten days later and I am still sick. This morning I woke myself up wanting to throw up in my dream. I’m not sure what I’ve got but I don’t like it.
So. Was I thinking of having another baby and going through morning sickness again? HELL NO.
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