Well we are finally here and made it without any problems whatsover, everything went really well and the kids behaved amazing. I think it helped tremendously having to travel in a motorhome vs a 4runner truck. The kids were able to move and play games, puzzles eat at a table and have their naps lying flat instead of in a carseat. That was my biggest worry was having the kids be sooo restless in their carseats which I can’t blame them one bit. Who really wants to be strapped down for 12hrs in a car without being able to move besides hands and feet. Well I can’t emphasize enough how grateful I am to Candee and Sam Goh for offering to bring us to Edmonton. I am worry about the way back, but I will try not to think about that right now 🙁
Anyways, it was very comfortable for me as well, I was able to go to the washroom every five minutes which is part of pregnancy but it seems like I have to pee a lot more than any other pregnant woman out there UGHH!!
It took us two days to get here. On Sunday we stayed at RV Hotel and that was fine and we were back on the road by 9:30 once again. I think we only had about 5 to 6hrs to go so that was nice. We stopped for lunch for about 1hr and kept on moving. We arrived in Edmonton at 4:35p.m.
I was amazed on how well everyone did. Once we got here the Hotel they had original sent us too was extremely sketchy, Chris said it was so scrubby that the carpets were blue but with black spots and the curtains and everything smelled musty and smokey, not really a a place where we wanted to stay with two kids and being very pregnant. So we booked another hotel and that’s where we are at right now which is Ok, we don’t have a kitchen so it’s been pretty hard to make anything, we actually don’t even have a small fridge, so having to give the kids milk has been hard. I can’t wait until next week where we move into the Ronald Mcdonald house and apparently that is a pretty nice place and the kids will have more room and be more comfortable and I will be able to make food instead of having to buy stuff all the time. We weren’t able to go straight to the Ronald Mcdonald house because they only take pregnant women 2 weeks prior to their due date and the Dr’s wanted us here 4 weeks prior to due date, but we are here 3 weeks prior to due date which is April 23rd, had to compromise a little bit.
After settling in the hotel the next day our friends Sam and Candee wanted to venture to the West Edmonton Mall before they headed back on their trip in their motorhome, so we joined them for about a couple of hours , took the kids to play putt and glow mini golf, Hayden and Hayley had lots of fun with that. Soon after it was time for our friends to depart and we would go our seperate ways. I was really emotional just because Chris and I were arguing, maybe because the stress about being here already was getting to us or the change or scenery. Anyways it was emotional to see our friends leave and just felt alone in an unknown city. Tomorrow we start our Dr. appointments and see where we are at with things and how baby is doing.
I worry about the kids mainly, sometimes I feel like I am so short with them and so is Chris and it’s not really fair for them having to go through so much change and moving them around and taking them to Dr appointments. So far they have done amazing, can’t complain and Hayden is even doing awesome with potty training. So that is a really good thing, I think he might even be almost fully potty trained, but won’t be surprise if accidents come along the way.
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