We’re back from our first vacation with Alex and, well what can I say about vacationing with a little kid…….uh…….hmmm……..it’s different. Technically, it’s not that much fun a lot of the time and the travelling part totally blows, I used to think it blew before but I was wrong, now it blows. I must say, never going out for dinner while you’re on vacation stinks (ok, we went out one night) and being housebound trying to get an overstimulated toddler to try and take a much needed nap is exasperating especially when you desperately need to take a nap yourself. I can’t blame him for being so excited, my mother provided him with a wonderland of toys and fun, it was very cute.

Perhaps the naplessness was the hardest as the days passed because his disposition became less and less stable as his exhaustion grew. We usually went to the pool a couple times a day because that was essentially all we could do and he loved it so much, but even that was cut short the last couple days as his fits became too frequent. It was a retirement community after all, the oldsters weren’t too psyched to have a screaming kid in their serene pool.

One morning we made it out to the botanical garden that my mother volunteers at, I finally had a chance to use my camera and took a pile of photos of plants and flowers. I have no real interest in shooting plants and flowers for the most part but it was better than nothing and I wasn’t sitting in the house listening to Alex scream in his crib. He seemed to enjoy running around the garden too so it was a pretty good day.

I’m happy that Alex and his grandparents got to enjoy each other’s company and have some fun together, that was great.

I’m so much more exhausted than when I left and I have no idea how or when I’m going to catch up. I guess I’m a little bitter, sorry, I haven’t had a vacation in three years. I’m just so tired.