We returned home from the Big Apple late Sunday night. We had a wonderful time and it was great to see many of our dear friends. Emmett was fabulous for the trip and plane ride. On the way out, he slept/played/ate the entire trip, not even fussing. On the way home, he was a pretty good sport, considering we sat on the tarmac for three hours before our six hour flight. He cried for a solid hour, and we were trying everything in our bag of tricks to calm him down. He wouldn't take the boob, bouncing in our seats wasn't working...it was very frustrating and I had to sit there and look back on the incident and remember all of the times I got pissed or rolled my eyes at people with screaming babies on flights...anyhow, after an hour of crying, I finally just laid him down on the pillow across our laps, and he just stopped, stared at the lights a bit, and put himself to sleep right before take off and slept the entire flight. It obviously could have been much worse.
I won't go into detail about our trip, since Damon covered most of it on his blog except to say that my conference was really great and I am so excited to change things up in my classroom in the fall. Belinda got to go to the conference too, and I am thrilled that she will be working along side me in the classroom. How crazy and how lucky we are!
So we are back home, enjoying our foggy summer days in SF. I know work is on the horizon, which I have mixed feelings about. I am thrilled that Damon will be able to at home with Emmett, but I know I am really going to miss my days with him. I wish it were possible for both of us to stay home for a year (or more), but I realize we are pretty lucky that we get to swing Damon staying home, even if it gets us more into debt.
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