Whirlwind.

Friday.

Bella and I woke up and got dressed by 8:30, and headed to the hotel lobby for our complimentary breakfast.  She had her usual waffle with cup of peach yogurt, while I sipped my coffee and munched on a slice of bacon.  Post breakfast, we hung out in our room rotating between home shows and PBS kids until noon when we left to go pick up Vince at the Gulfport airport.  Longest 1.5 hours of my life!  Anyway, he arrived safely and back to Hattiesburg we went.

While driving, we discussed our options.  Shockingly enough, Papa is still with us, so there was no way a funeral was happening this weekend.  The earliest it will be is next weekend, so we decided to head to the hotel, grab our stuff, and then head to Papa's house to grab the rest or our stuff and say good bye before hitting the road to head home.  Vince let Bella and I decide and both of us agreed that we wanted to go home!

By 4:15, we were on the road, and I took the first shift because I knew the back way to get us out of town avoiding the heavy traffic of downtown.  I got us into Alabama where we stopped at Subway to grab dinner to go and Vince took over.  He made it to just outside Atlanta where we stopped for gas and I took over.  I finished the last 5 hours no sweat and we were home by 2 a.m.  It felt so good to pull up into the driveway, and before I got out I glanced at the odometer noticing we had traveled 2300 miles in 2 weeks... that's a lot of driving.

Vince carried in B-bo and put her to bed.  Then we had a few snacks, crawled into bed, watched an episode of The Good Guys, and then fell asleep staring at the stars on our ceiling.  It is soooooooooo good to be home!

Vince is making me yummy cheese grits and some kind of fancy bagel, and I've had the first normal cup of coffee since I left.  One clarification, I had 3 FABULOUS cups of coffee at Amanda's house. Papa has a percolator, and a very old one at that. It only makes coffee that tastes like ass. That is all.  Feeling a little bit normal, and it feels good.

One more thing before I go, while lying in bed and drifting to sleep, Vince and I came up with a great band name/children's book or at least we think so... Anyway, here it is... TNT Tartlet and the Sun Gun Habit.  Stay tuned for further elaboration.

Happy Saturday <3