Traveled Out

This weekend we traveled down to Cincy once again to visit with our family for Easter. We had so much fun and the boys (Henry/Liam) enjoyed every minute of attention they received and kisses they got from the whole family.

I had a 'Im a bad mother moment' when we took the dogs for a walk and I didnt bring our travel system stroller with us because it takes up the entire trunk. So we used a umbrella stroller Jessica had on her and Henry fit right in it perfectly. I had a hat on him and pants and a long sleeve shirt and a blanket over him just so he would be warm and snug and happy. I put on some sunglasses too but his head isnt big enough yet so he cried until I took them off. The bad mother moment came hours later when I took Henry from Kev to feed him his bottle and noticed his face was really red. Instantly I went to the 'does he have a fever' mode and was checking his forehead and cheeks etc etc. Nope and Nope. Was he fussy? Nope. Was he just warm form being in his sherpa blanket? Nope again. Then it hit me---it was sunburn. And I crumbled, I was so angry at myself! How could I forget that he has 2 month old skin, pure, delicate skin. Didn't even think about putting on his boat hat, or applying SPF to his face. I hated myself. I was so so angry that I first off hadnt brought our good stroller with tons of shades, second that I was stupid enough to not think about applying SPF and so on and so on.

I had a lil hissy fit, which was heightened by my family trying to reassure me he would be fine and it wouldn't affect him greatly. Later on our way home and I was discussing it with Kevin I realized it was more of a emotional trauma to me then Henry. It was the first time that I did something neglectful that brought harm to him, maybe he didnt feel it, or it never bothered him, but there was physical evidence of neglect on his face via the sunburn on my behalf. I hated it! I made it into something bigger than it needed to be and didnt let it go for hours. I def was not enjoyable to be around for a moment. From the experience brought knowledge and lessons learned which is all you can take away from these kind of things. Glad is was minor and the sunburn has subsided greatly in the last two days. So thankful it wasnt worse and didnt cause much pain to my little bean.

After traveling friday thru sunday Kev and I got home literally exhausted on Sunday night. We alwayssss come home with more than we brought. Now our house looks like a tornado and none of us have clean clothes, the kitchen is sparce when it comes to food. Lots to do to catch up, which is something I've had to to a lot lately. With all our traveling, and travelers we are maxed out. I have traveled every weekend of april and have a big trip coming up in may to Kansas.

every time we travel it takes 3 hours to pack-load the car and get ready! I am ready for a staycation. where i stay at home, go to the pool and chill out and veg out. focusing only on the 'house of clouse' family. btw sorry everything is lower cased in this paragraph-currently feeding henry and typing one-handed. off the computer i go to tend to my needy baby.

much love
lc