We went to the park for a while Tuesday night - Lil D was allllll smiles.
I went to the top of the slide and Matty was at the bottom. I'd grab Lil D's arms and let him dangle in suspense before letting him go. He loved it!
The park had trails out back. I thought the bumpy ride would be uncomfortable but Lil D screamed with joy!
The time we spent with Lil D was amazing. I never thought the thing that initially destroyed me and Matty's relationship ended up making us stronger as a couple. I have a great deal of respect and admiration for Matty - and seeing him play 'dad' is actually quite attractive!
My main man and his Mini Me:
He loves to put food in his mouth, get it all nice and soggy then offer it to you. Yummy!
Tuesday morning we packed up and checked out of the hotel. Matty's sister let us use her car and he ended up spotting a bad tire that needed to be replaced, so we had to take care of that before getting back on the road. After a nice breakfast at the Craker Barrel we met up with Lil D's mom and sadly gave him back :( Matty took it better than I thought - he got a little misty-eyed the night before at the thought of leaving him in PA as we headed back to Maine. He's such a big softie!!!
Can you blame him?
After getting the tire replaced we headed to Hershey. We were both ready to go home, but Matty knew I wanted to pick up some chocolate for my peepz so we swung in there and grabbed a burger at the Red Robin. 6PM came around and we were on our way home.
It actually was quite a nice drive - much easier with daylight. The sunset was really nice and the breeze was awesome, so we drove a lot of the way with the windows open. We got some funny looks as people drove by and saw us singing along to the country music we had blaring. We have so much fun together :)
I slept a couple hours on the way home, on and off. I'd wake up every once in a while and check to see if Matty had started to nod off yet. He prefers to do the driving though, and did an awesome job both ways! Around 1AM we were in Mass and about an hour from Maine when the car died - in Lawrence. Crap. Matty said the gas pedal just gave out and wouldn't take any more. We coasted to the side of the road, popped the trunk and checked it out. Luckily Matty knows quite a bit about cars - he's one of the best people to be stranded with! Unfortunately we were not able to figure out what was wrong. He called his sister to see what the problem was LAST time it died, but she couldn't remember. She also said that unless we knew Spanish we probably couldn't get much help in Lawrence - the city is 95% Spanish. SUPER!!!He called his mom, his dad, my step-dad...no luck. No quick fixes, no AAA. Around 2:30AM I got in the car and Matty started to push. When the car started to go to fast for him he ran and jumped in. We coasted all the way to a Dunkin Donuts and landed in a parking spot. We locked the doors and curled up, waiting for his mom who was on her way to pick us up. She lived about an hour away from where we were fortunately, so we caught some overdue Z's in the meantime.
Around 4AM I was startled awake by a knock at the window - his mom. Relieved, we loaded up our pillows and my laptop into her car and we snoozed back to her house. We plopped on a mattress down in her basement after arriving around 5AM and slept until 9 - we still had a car to get! We took turns calling in to work and thankfully our bosses were ok with it - not that we had a choice, but it's always nice when people are cool about that kind of stuff, know what I mean?
We headed to Uhaul for a car dolley, and they didn't have the right one - nor did we have the correct trailer hitch. We headed to Wal Mart, then to the Portland Uhaul because they had the dolley we needed. Back to Lawrence we go. By the time we got to the car it was pretty hot outside and I was not happy to find that the $50 in chocolate that I had purchased was well on its way to melting. Could anything else go wrong? We loaded up the car and headed back to Maine where we had a connection that would look at sister's car to see what was wrong. Unfortunately he couldn't figure it out and we had to leave the car there. Not our problem any more, that's for sure! We swung back through Uhaul to drop off the dolley and was homeward bound.
Mr. Fix-It:
I slept on and off for the last few hours and got home Wednesday at 7pm. I loaded my stuff in my car and hugged Matty goodbye, choking back tears. It was such a good weekend, I didn't want it to end. Even the obstacles we ran into were fun - we never lost our cool, fought or anything! I went home and was out cold by 8:30.
Yesterday and today have been very busy days at the office. Luckily my boss was able to find someone to cover some of my work while I was out, so it saved me a significant amount of stress. I do have to go in tomorrow and do some more work though - at least it'll only be for a few hours. I have to work at the store tomorrow night too, so I guess I don't have much for fun stuff going on.
I saw Counselor yesterday and she said shaking up my routine is good for me every once in a while. For one, it helps me to appreciate my routine once I get back into it, and also it reminds me that I really can have fun when things are turned upside down. Now I have awesome memories and adventures that I can tell Lil D about when he's older! I can't wait to see that precious little boy again :)
Oh, and someday I'll open my own Cracker Barrel so I don't have to travel out of state to enjoy their food!
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