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The good thing is the laundry’s already done. Whew! I love getting home from a trip and starting to unpack, but I hate the mess it makes! It looks like our luggage threw up everywhere….although the lil’ helper has done his fair share of “helping”. The crazy thing is we’re just packing it all up again to make another trip to another beach. (Hate me yet?HaHa!) We’re gearing up to see PawPaw, GaGa, Coe, and Didad (Jonah’s “names” for Grandpa, Grandma, Joe, and David).

My camera wasn’t cooperating today…or yesterday either. Stupid camera. I’m sure it’s operator error. There wasn’t too much to see….Jonah hated the sand. Again. So, there aren’t and of the pictures I had hoped for…like building sandcastles, burying daddy in the sand, or walking on the beach. Nope. Instead we have pictures of Jonah crying because his water shoes have tiny specks of sand on them or Jonah sitting in a chair pouting because we are at the beach instead of the pool. Sigh. Hopefully, my camera and my computer will start talking to each other again soon. Very soon.

Think positive, think positive… Jonah LOVES the pool! And when I say loves, I mean loves, with a capital L, the pool!!!! He was such a daredevil, but you already know that about him, right? He was jumping off the side, playing on the steps, and wanted “no hands” as he told me. Hmmm….maybe Jonah can convince daddy he needs a pool. HA!

We had quite a trip down…we definitely earned the vacation by the time we got there and got settled. Jonah’s tube worked its way out of his ear, which is perfectly fine. What was NOT fine, was the drainage coming from it. Lots and lots of yucky drainage…and a 104.5 fever. So, I made some calls, hunted down numbers for pharmacies in the area, made some more calls. “What do you mean, you don’t have that kind of medicine? Can you call the other pharmacy and get it? They don’t have the other medicine? What kind of craziness is this? Wait a minute, Ray, you missed the exit. Turn around…” I am thanking God so much for all of the provisions he made for us while we were on the road. From the sweet, sweet man at the Walgreens who tracked down the medicine and transferred part of Jonah’s info/prescription to CVS to the lady at the hotel that looked up numbers in the phonebook for me. Thank you. You have no idea the headaches you kept at bay for me. Your kindness will not be forgotten. Thank you CVS for the $25 gift card because of the transferred prescription. It made me do a happy dance all the way to the van and eased the tension in my shoulders.

We finally made it to the hotel, administered medicine, and got the fever to go away. Then we realized the air conditioning wasn’t working at all…..here we go again! Long story short…we slept in a total of 3 condos because the first 2 had broken A/C units. Hmm…I really, really tried to “keep my cool” about the situation, but in Florida with a broken air conditioner and a sick baby, it was hard. I bit my lip a bunch. In the end it all worked out. We got a room with a working a/c unit 3 days into the trip, Jonah started feeling better, and then to smooth things over the condo gave us a bottle of wine and a $50 gift certificate for a restaurant….free dinner for our anniversary….Yes! Ahhh, then the vacation started. Did I mention my husband got me a massage for our anniversary? Yeah. He totally rocks!

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