Yesterday my wonderful dear husband decided to get new tires on the van.  We drove to a much larger town then where we live, he dropped us off at a restaurant to eat and then took the vant o the shop and my mom picked him up and brought him back to the restarant.  So, I had my five blessings with me at a large buffet.  I back packed our baby and carried the almost 2 yr old and the other three tagged along to get our food.  By the time we all had a plate my mom and dh were back.  After we all got our bellies full my mom took dh to get the van, the dc and I chose to walk and meet up with dh when he got done.  We ended up walking about 1.5 miles, not far, but, we are in a town that is much larger, walking with a almost 2 yr old, a 3 yr old, 5 yr old and an 8 yr old, I have the baby on my back who spits up and it is running down my shirt into the waist of my jeans.  We sang praise songs sporadically along the way.  My almost 2 yr old is fasinated with the railroad tracks and seems to think they would be a great place to find wonderful treasures.  About the time we finally cross all of them he decideds to sit down in the middle of a driveway to rest, so I end up carrying him for a while.  Then we approach a very busy intersection that we  have to cross 4 streets to get to the bridge  that we have to walk accrss.  My 3 yr old is scared the almost 2 yr old wants to look over the edge by crawling through the rails and my 8 yr old sees a  turtle down in the river, the 5 yr old is trying to convince the 3 yr old to have fun while we cross.  The 3 yr old is wrapped aroun dmy legs and I can't seem to keep my balance with the baby on my back and the almost 2 yr old pulling on me to look over the edge.    I am starting to think that this was not such a good idea at this point.  We get about halfway across the river when the almost 2 yr old again sits down to rest, so I carry him most of the rest of the way.  I look up and there is my dh in our van.  We have to get the rest of the way across the river then we gather everybody up and fasten them down and they tell daddy all about the great fun they had and I am sitting there with that look of  fun??  Hmm, I think I was having fun until we got to that intersection.  lol  So, we survived our walk and I may think twice the next time, however they did all sleep well for the trip to the next town to the chiropractor's office.  My dh was impressed that we got as far as we did.  I imagine even with our little speed bumps along the way it was a lot less stressful then trying to keep them quite in a restarant while we waited the 30 min for daddy to get back. 

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