a confluence of events

Well it sure has been great having Brian home so much.  We go out to lunch a lot, and he has been making the lunch for Charli's play school that we have to make once a week, and he fixes things up around the house...  While I was on maternity leave, I would even go walk around the hill while he ran, so he got me to exercise, too - what a miracle!  We've been having a lovely time.

My parents have been visiting a lot, too, to hang with the grandkids.  They recently bought a new RV (a small one), and drove it out from Colorado.  Then they left for Hawaii for a month and a half, with plans to leave the RV at my uncle's house in Santa Rosa.

Well, heck, say I!  Brian's got nothing but free time, plus some severance pay; I'm not doing anything terrifically involved at work seeing as how I just got back from maternity leave and there's kind of an interim thing going on; Charli is not in real school yet; and we have access to an RV for a month?  Clearly we're going on a road trip!

It took a while for us to get the most important logistic worked out, which was how to get the carseats safely into the RV, which doesn't have any forward facing seats in the back with seatbelts.  After much frustration, Brian came up with the brilliant idea of using rock climbing gear as additional straps, and the car seats are in there facing in the proper directions and solid as rocks.  We took a test trip last weekend (a road triplet, as it were) to an RV supply store a little over an hour away.  It took us all day, and it was awesome!  We stopped for lunch, we stopped to buy diapers because we sort of forgot to bring any with us, we toured some seriously decadent RVs at this RV store after we bought some very important supplies (like lights to hang on the awning), we stopped on the way home to feed Buster...  It was completely relaxed, and Charli could see out the windows and talk to us about all the stuff she saw, and Buster slept most of the time the car was moving.  When we were stopped, Brian lounged on the bed and read his iPhone.  Breastfeeding in a Toyota Matrix with 2 carseats in it = no fun.  Breastfeeding in a Tiger van with 2 carseats in it = no problem!

Of course, we saw this on the way home.  Someone's always got to have a better house on wheels...