Day 1

The beginning of our holiday's did not start out too well. On Monday, from morning to night, I worked and worked at getting ready to leave town. After doing piles of laundry, getting church things done and packing for five us I was able to go to bed fairly early at 11:30. (Now Jeff didn't get to bed until a little after 2 am.) Our goal was to be on the road no later then 9:00.

At 2:30 Preston came in saying he felt like he was going to throw up and he couldn't find the "can". (The "can" is a large Hunts Ketchup can which is like an old coffee can, it's perfect for portability, ie as in a vehicle or by a bed at night. It's also better then a big bowl because there isn't the rounded bottom so there is no "splashing" back in the face.) He was then told just to go to the toilet. He tried and didn't make it. I have the best husband in the world because he always cleans up the throw up! (If I tried, I would be adding my own stomach's contents to what was already there.) So after 20 minutes of sleep Jeff was back up, cleaning off the bathroom floor and all that goes with that. He finally got to go back to bed around 4:00 and then it was my duty to stay up with Preston. (The whole time Jeff was up cleaning, I was awake also, I wasn't sleeping!)

As I was laying in bed, and Jeff was cleaning the bathroom, all I could think about was what we were going to do about Thanksgiving and traveling back. All of my kids had been counting the days until we left for Kansas. I knew that they would be soooo disappointed if we didn't get to leave when we had planned. I knew my mom got up at 4 something CST, so I waited until 4:00am MST to give her a call. She said, "I want you to come." So the decision was made to keep an eye on Preston to see how he was doing when the time came and that we would more then likely head out that day, just not as early as originally planned.

Around 11:00 we headed out on the road. About 10 minutes on the road Preston started heaving. We pulled over got our cleaning stuff out. Sterilized the "can" and sprayed the van with some Lysol and we were back on the road again. We were all very thankful that ended up being the last of the stomach issues! Today Preston seems to be back to normal. He is running, playing and eating.

When we hit our destination, I then was able to go and pick up the long awaited and anticipated Gambino's pizza! They have the BEST sausage pizza and the only time I get it is when we visit Kansas. That was the end on day 1.