Jerame's first blog ...This is my cameo posting to tell everyone about our fantastic Easter weekend. As some of you may know my dad, Paul (known as “Papa Paul” to Livy, Skyler, Chloe, and Carter), was diagnosed with advance prostate cancer a year ago. After he was diagnosed I spent a week with him, which included Easter Sunday, coming to grips with the life changing event and ultimately figuring out how to start fighting the fight. The week ended up being one of the most significant, memorable, and impactful weeks of my life.
We had not seen Papa Paul since October. He had spent the last two months at MD Anderson, in Huston, getting radiation treatment, which he responded remarkably well to. This meant the last he had seen Carter and Chloe they were only two months old. We were all desperate to see each other so Katie and I mustered the courage to make the 5 hour drive, with the twins, to Deer Park, just outside of Spokane.
After we purchased a dual DVD player, Baby Einstein was a critical part of our travel plans, we started our trek east at 7:30 Thursday night. We made great time, the twins slept the entire way, and our trip was off to a great start. Once we were there we kicked off what turned out to be an equally memorable Easter weekend.
We spent most of our time playing with the twins, eating, telling stories about the hippie days, and enjoying watching Carter and Chloe play with their grandpa. The highlights were Carter & Chloe getting to see and pet their first horse (Dad is convinced Chloe is going to be a cowgirl), waking Papa Paul up with Carter pulling his nose, and my famous seafood pasta.
After a perfect Easter dinner we started the trek back to Seattle. We left at 6 PM with the idea that the twins would sleep just as they did on the way there. WRONG…….. about two hours in they both decided to melt down, which meant we spent a lot of time changing diapers on the center console, trying to calm screaming babies in gas station parking lots, and arguing about which one of us would get to hitch hike the rest of the way home. We finally calmed the babies down and were able to have a safe and uneventful rest of the trip. All and all it was a perfect Easter!!
2 comments:
Jerame - what a sweet post! I'm glad to hear you guys had a nice weekend with your Dad and he was able to spend some time with his grandbabies. Good to hear the babies did okay on the long drive, you guys have some balls to do that as I get nervous taking Westyn into downtown Redmond.
Welcome to the blogging world, Jerame! Got Katie's text on the way over and am so glad you got to spend some time with your Dad-bet he loved every minute of it. The pictures are priceless, thanks for sharing! x
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