The day after Christmas we had one heck of a day. First of all, my husband's aunt died unexpectedly two days before Christmas. Her viewing and funeral were scheduled for December 26th. I tried to get someone to watch the boys, so they wouldn't have to go. I try to shelter them from such sad events. Unfortunately, my parents were working and my sister was unavailable. I could have used our babysitter, but it would have cost me a small fortune. (It was kind of far away and we were going to be there for hours.)
Of course, the boys had nothing appropriate to wear to a funeral. A few days earlier, my husband had gone out shopping and bought both boys a pair of dress slacks. SJ's fit fine, but Bob's were way too big. I took his pair back the next day and also bought each of them a sweater. (Upon inspection of their closets, they didn't have anything acceptable in a shirt either.) The boys didn't care for the slacks or the sweaters, but I thought they looked great!
We were supposed to be at the funeral home around nine. It is at least 45 minutes from our house on a good weather day; however we were driving into a blizzard. It took us over 90 minutes to get there. The boys kept asking us how long we were going to stay at each location. We anticipated going to the funeral home, the cemetery and then a restaurant last. We gave them an estimate of three hours total. Right before we arrived, my husband's sister called us on our mobile phone to let us know they cancelled going to the cemetery and the wake. They were going to have a service only at the funeral home. The boys seemed relieved that we would not be there as long.
We paid our respects to my husband's aunt and her children. The boys did very well through the service. After the service, some of my husband's relatives were going to a closer restaurant to eat. We opted not to go since the weather was so bad. We started driving home at 11:30 a.m.
The weather got worse. There were jackknifed trucks and cars crashed all over the highways. My husband drove slow and we inched our way home. We stopped at Target about halfway home. We all went to the restroom and got some snacks. We continued our journey home driving slowly and very cautiously.
When we got off the highway near our house, the local roads were just as bad. We tried two times to get up the one road near our house. We u-turned and tried the other road. It was worse. SJ asked my husband to find another road. My husband reminded him that there weren't any other roads. We decided to try the first road again. When we got to the trouble spot, he had all of us move back and forth in our seats to inch our car forward. It worked! It took us 3 1/2 hours to get home! That was crazy!
My brother-in-law made it to our house a few hours later. By evening, the snow stopped and we were able to get out to pick up some take out chinese food. The boys hung out with Uncle Greg and got some more bonding time in. SJ just loves Uncle Greg. He follows him around and is always showing him videos on his IPod.
Greg was going to leave on Thursday, but he opted to stay until Friday morning. While the boys, Greg and my husband were having male bonding time, I decided to return some Christmas items. I picked us up some yummy food from Panera and we watched a movie in the evening. Although we had the sad event of my husband's aunt passing, we still had some happy moments in the last few days.
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