It was only after we drove several hours to reach the
greater Philadelphia area and we got out of the car when we arrived at our
friends’ house that we found out the BIG mistake of our quick trip: in packing
the car after he got home K had not packed the boys’ bags (which SADLY, in my
hurry to get ready after K got there, I had forgotten to bring from their bedroom to the hallway). -->And
that’s officially the longest sentence ever! ;-)
What a blunder!! My
poor boys! Both only wearing t-shirts and thin sweatpants in freezing weather
when they had each packed their bags by 3 pm and made sure that they had
everything they needed. Of course they have their Sherpa lined hoodies and we
had brought my youngest’s jacket and a zippered fleece for the oldest. They
also have two pairs of shoes and one pair of slippers, but no other clothes.
It is only a two-day
trip, but tomorrow afternoon we’ll drop them off with my brother-in-law’s
family and they’ll stay with them until Thursday morning. My husband will get
there on Tuesday and he can bring them clothes, but I think we’ll still have to
buy some staples such as underwear, socks and maybe long winter underpants if
we can find them.
And tomorrow I’ll
ask my SIL to bring a change of clothes for my youngest for when we meet up
(we’re going to a friend’s birthday party), since he’s the same size as his
cousin.
Sigh. Last night he
boys were pretty indignant, but I told them that someday we would certainly
laugh at this situation. My 11 year old didn’t want to sleep on his clothes, so
I had him wear my fleece pajama top and fleece leggings I have and I put one of
my tighter long sleeve t-shirts on my youngest so he’d have warm arms during
the night.
And now we’re going
to Longwood Gardens in the snow… and wish us luck trying to sightsee in Philly
in this weather! I knew about the bad weather, but I still needed to come in
spite of it.
1 comment:
Oh, dear! They will for sure survive. And also probably laugh about it later!
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