A Mommy & Allison vacation

After planning on getting an early start, I couldn't drag myself out of bed early! I had orginally planned on leaving around 1030 but after getting up around 0900, I knew there was no way we were going to be ready in 90 minutes. Especially when I got nothing packed last night. I got Allison up and then we were pretty much running around until 1200. Got the suitcase packed, the coolers pulled out from underneath the house and cleaned. Clothes from the washer/dryer done, and dishes loaded in the dishwasher, trash out...we were getting close to leaving. Allison took everything out and put it in the driveway, we got the coolers washed out and then everything loaded in the car. Yeah us! We got in the car and Allison says "it looks like we are going for a month". I didn't care. I had thrown clothes in the suitcase (actually there probably is enough clothes in there for a month) but I was so tired when I was packing, I just ended up throwing clothes in there. We packed chairs, coolers, beach stuff, food, you know ALL the essentials. So yes, Im not sure how we could have packed anything else. We still had to make a stop at Krogers and the bank, oh, and lunch for Allison (because she is always hungry) and then I think, we were going to be on the road. We did finally get on the road around 1200 and got here around 1430. Used 3 luggage carts (not really) to unload the car and then out to the beach we went. The weather is great, the water felt wonderful and it was nice, just relaxing and having absolutely NOTHING to do! Allison has already started collecting seashells, and she actually got in the water, but she wasn't too excited after I told her that a 17-year old girl was bitten by a shark here last week! I invited Chris down. Im so excited that he is coming for the weekend. Im so hard on him. We have kept in touch over the last 4 months, I really wish he could see how I feel without making me 'say it'. Why don't guys just get it? I guess THAT is the $1,000,000 question.