We had gotten up at 5:30am so I was tired. I also was with my BFF Dramamine so once again I somehow fell asleep on the plane home. When we landed in Arizona it was dark. I must be honest, it felt like home. Ric said it even smelled like home.
I always felt like people weren't as friendly as they are in the mid west, but they are even more unfriendly in the everyday setting in Reno. At least in our experience, which is very limited, and not including the people we interviewed with, they were lovely. Or the little old couples who were there to gamble, they were just cute. And the drivers there just plain suck. And the pedestrians are even more dangerous. They just walk right into the road, right into traffic and everyone has to come to a screeching stop. We saw a couple almost get run over and one punch someones car. In Az. you would just plain get run over and you would deserve it.
Anyway, when we went to pick up Hailey and Kaden I had to yell for them and Kade didn't say a word he just closed his eyes and gave me a long tight hug. Hailey wasn't even there she was at a friends house. We went to get her and she came to the door and asked if she could stay longer.??? NO. I asked her if she even missed me and she says "oh. yeah." I will say there is not any other place that Hailey could have slept without crying than Ranells. On the drive home they talked the whole way telling us all the things they got to do. Almost like they were trying to tell me they are capable of so much more than I allow them to do.
I waited for my baby girls to be dropped off. Hazel just climbed onto my lap closed her eyes and curled up like a little kitten and kept sighing with a smile on her face. She stayed like that forever. And my little Avary, I worried about her, she sat in my lap hugging me tight and cried and cried saying how much she missed me. She cried all the way to bed time but when I tucked her in and sang her a song she said she was so glad to be home and fell asleep with a smile. I was so happy to tuck all my little ones in their beds and know they were happy and safe. I am glad they were spoiled and cared for. I almost prefer they be spoiled when I have to leave them. They all said they had fun.
I admit it would have been a complete nightmare to take the kids on a trip like that, kind of torturous actually. And we did enjoy ourselves. But I think leaving them again can wait for quite awhile. Thank goodness there was family here willing to take such good care of them for me otherwise it never would have happened.
And who knows what that one trip to Nevada has started, it has already caused me all kinds of trouble since then.
