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Ramblings of a Traveling Mom

By Melissa Markham on July 30, 2008 9:58 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Sorry that I haven't been around for a few days. I did get in on the bloggy giveaways carnival with some help from my friend Laura, at Laura Williams' Musings.

We spent most of the weekend enjoying our last weekend in Bloomington and getting packed to come back to Virginia. Daniel says the apartment is really lonely without us there. I can tell you that it was a whole lot emptier after packed our stuff up. I didn't think it was all going into the Xterra, but it did...well, most of it - we will be getting the rest when we go back when Daniel's gig is done. We loaded up Sunday, but unlike when we came home the end of June, we weren't chomping at the bit to get back to Virginia this time.

We didn't leave Bloomington until around 9:30. And we spent the night in West Virginia. When we got to WV, we started running into traffic due to road work that was being done at night. After my third 15 minute wait, I decided we were done and we checked into a Wingate outside of Charleston.

The Wingate was very nice. Those puffy bedspreads must be all the rage these days in newer hotels. I want one for my bed...light, but very warm and comfy. We had a good night's sleep and went downstairs for our complimentary breakfast.

Katrina wanted hard boiled eggs and asked if I would warm them up. I have never heated up hardboiled eggs in the microwave...do you know you have to pierce those suckers? I knew that if they got too hot, they could explode, so I only warmed them for 30 seconds. They were really, really cold when we got them out of the container, and they were just barely warm after 30 seconds, so I went for another 20. The microwave beeped, I opened the door, pulled out the eggs and then there was this gunshot sound! One of the eggs exploded...egg on my daughter's face, all over the microwave, the floor and on my shirt and in our hair....EMBARRASSING! And who knew how big of a mess an exploding egg could make!????

I have been using a microwave for over 25 years and I have never, ever exploded anything....until now! That was our most exciting moment on our return trip.

Yesterday we arrived home around 3. I had three loads of laundry to do, a weeks worth of mail to sort, 84 emails and hundreds of comments (spam and non spam) to wade through on my blog. Plus I had to go to the grocery store. I am proud to report, that at 11 am this morning, I am caught up. The unpacking is done. Mail is caught up, phone calls have been made and returned, the last load of laundry is drying and the kids have friends over to visit. All is right with the world.

Except for the 2 foot long, 1 foot in diameter hornets nest that is growing out of our satellite dish...Expect photos in the future....

I finished watching the first season of Lost and can't wait to get the next season. What a bang - up finish! I couldn't believe it when Boone died a couple of episodes before the end. And now Walt has been kidnapped...what a horrible thing to happen, just when Sawyer, Jin and Walt's dad thought they were going to be rescued. Exciting times!