Hotel Living

We're officially on the move! We checked out of our house and into a hotel and to say the past two days have been crazy would be an understatement. Tommy has had multiple panic attacks over the packed car ( this whole moving with children thing doesn't settle well with him), Jake is sleeping in the bathroom and keeping two toddlers voices at a reasonable level is just not doable!

I'm certain all three kids were up before the sun, and this mom sleep maybe 4 1/2 hours collectively last night! But we arose this morning and headed out with no fights & the husband & I are still married!!!!

We had one goal for today... Wreaths Across America, and we successfully did that with zero meltdowns.

We did this last year with the kids and are looking forward to doing this every year with them, Wreaths are purchased, a ceremony is held and then volunteers place the wreaths on headstones at National Cemeteries. Our favorite part is walking through and reading the headstones and to catch a small glimpse of who these people were.

"Gone Fishing"
"Off to play his accordion forever"

"Keep the Coffee Hot"

Many of those who are no longer with us were full of humor, and some were taken way, way to early.

I highly suggest if you ever have the chance to go to one of these, very peacefully and a breathtaking moment.

These two kids were beyond excited to ride on a bus, they are just going to pee their pants when they get to ride on a train later this month. 

We walked up and down the rows and the kids fixed all the flowers that had fallen down and of course collected rocks. One plaque had a collection of pennies resting on it and three had been blown off, Thomas search through the rocks for them and nicely put them back into place. 

Ruby just loves doing this and made sure to make her wreath beautiful after it was placed. 

Tommy picked our spot and just so happened this was one of our 5, and it really touched me. Perfect for Jake's wreath.

This is by far the most beautiful cemetery I've ever seen, pictures don't do it justice. So peaceful and again breathtaking, I'm beyond thankful we were able to come out for this event.

Ruby was wiped after our long morning, being the backseat driver is a good job to have! 

We returned back to the hotel room to find our Elf and Uncle Si had decorated our Christmas tree with gummy trains! They kindly left us a new book!

Until next post, Stay Safe & We LOVE you all!