At this point my foggy Mom brain can’t figure out how many days I’ve missed posting, but I hope everyone found out from other channels that we did arrive home safely! To those following The Captain here, I apologize for taking a couple days to get up to speed. I wrote a post all about the unexpected and overwhelming feelings surrounding the return to our regular full time life, with our new full time son. I entitled this post, “I Miss Iowa”. But I decided not to post it. Life is about adjustments. And all of you parents out there know about how things change when this amazing little bundle of joy enters your life. I wouldn’t change a thing. I think the main problem is that I feel guilty for feeling overwhelmed when my dreams have finally come true. But I have to learn how to be patient with the expectations I have of myself. I’m a person who has a hard time relaxing until I get organized, and I’m used to working through my to do list each day. But with less sleep, and a little person who needs me at my best, I need to learn that it may take a little longer to get things done. And that sometimes it’s okay essential to just stop and take a nap when the baby is sleeping.
So sorry for the delay… and now back to our trip home:
Traveling with an infant was both easier than I thought it would be, and full of extra stress. We thought we had allowed plenty of extra time for stopping along the 3.5 hour drive for feeding, for getting through the airport security with baby/stroller/car seat/formula, etc. But what we hadn’t planned on was arriving at the wrong car return location, at the wrong terminal. We took our three suitcases and two cary-on’s out of the car, put the baby in his stroller, removed the car seat base, and walked over to return the car. The nice woman at the counter explained that we were at the wrong place, and that no, we couldn’t just walk or take a shuttle to the right place. SO… Rob and I transformed into a nascar pit crew. We got our tiny red rental car packed back up, car seat installed, ready to go in less than five minutes for sure (it felt more like 2 minutes!). We were pretty pleased with ourselves, but at that moment, our flight was 1 hour and 15 minutes from leaving. After a 10 minute drive to the next terminal, another car unloading and car return, we were heading to the check-in counter an hour before our flight left. I’ll just stop right here and say that we made it to the gate just in time. And once we were on the plane, the flight went splendidly. Brendan was a champ as usual, and got tons of attention from the flight attendants. When we arrived in SFO, our bags didn’t. They ended up arriving by courier to our house at 4:30 AM. We had packed plenty of diapers and formula in our cary on, so there were no tragedies.
We arrived home to a party! Decorations everywhere with balloons and pictures printed of our days in Iowa and presents and food and just so much love! It was awesome. Grandma and Grandpa Casler had brought Chelsea up (along with dinner!) before we got home, and she quickly showed us we had nothing to fear about her being nice to the baby. Then Aunt Lisa, Uncle Joel and Charlie came over – as well as Aunt Jess and Uncle Frank. We learned that Gabe had left a bunch of treats too. What a welcome!
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We had fun showing Brendan his room, laying him in his crib for the first time, changing the first diaper in the nursery, going to the park together for the first time… more and more and more firsts.
