Sleep

I am exhausted.  I feel like I have just had the longest day of my life.  I have been going, non-stop, since early yesterday afternoon.  That was when the process of coming home started.  I cleaned the beach house, closed it up, and packed up all of our stuff, which had grown enough to require another suitcase.  We had a wonderful last dinner with my Hawaii family, then rushed off to the airport to catch our 9:56pm flight home.  We finally arrived in New Mexico early this afternoon, the kids had been great, but Nick and I were spent.  We had barely slept, and still had to drive the almost three hours back to Taos.  After our awesome neighbors fed us dinner, we started the uphill battle of trying to get the kids to bed.  Tessie went down fairly easily, but Christian put up a fight.

You would think that a day and a half of traveling would tire a kid out.  Well apparently it just made Christian want to scream at me for two hours.  I guess I understand a little.  Overtired kids are not my favorite thing, not at all.  In between battling with my son, I got Tessie's birthday presents wrapped for the morning.  I just soothed her back to sleep after a scary dream, and now I think everyone is quiet and asleep.  I might actually be able to go to sleep myself.  This is the part I have been waiting for; a full night's sleep in my own bed.  At this moment, I can't think of a single more beautiful thing.