Get Ready! Get Set! Wait.

The last day before the trip starts is the hardest.

First, it simultaneously feels like we're never going to leave AND like the trip has come far too soon. I both want to leave immediately and wait a couple of days. But the time will come in the wee hours tomorrow and it will be fine.

Also, something always goes akimbo right before we leave. One year, a kid inexplicably overflowed a bathroom sink to the point water was dripping to the floor below. Another year one of the dogs had to have stitches after the two ding dongs fought over some bird food. I thought we covered this year's hiccup earlier in the week when the garage door was broken. But no. That would be too easy. Last night we discovered that the air conditioner isn't working properly. Then I didn't realize that it wasn't working again all day (even though I thought it was awfully warm). And now we'll have to wait until Monday to have somebody come fix it because it's Friday night and an uncomfortably warm house is not an emergency. I do not enjoy arranging these things from the road. But I will and it will be fine.   

Finally, I perpetually feel like I'm forgetting at least 23 major things. I never do. In fact, I always take WAY too much. Also, literally everything is replaceable from stores on the trip. Or the things are utterly unnecessary. Either way, I need to drop kick the worry to the side. But I won't and it will be fine.

Well, Jason, eyes fixed with a thousand-yard stare, and in between stuffing frozen pizza down his yell hole, just mumbled to no one in particular, "I'm going to be up all night." Yep. You sure will be because it is the last day before the trip starts and that's what you do. But then he'll pop out of bed long before dawn and be excited to leave like always. Everything will be fine and we'll have the time of our lives!