Homecoming Day:)

I am going ReTRo today....only because I can't keep up and it is too good to skip over....our wonderful friends and family met us at the airport and welcomed us home on November 21st with much love and they were kind enough to video and take pictures for us...like over 180 pictures...thanks Chris and everyone that has sent pictures...you don't know how much I appreciate it:)

Most of these speak for themselves...there was much emotion in that airport...and although I knew how bad I missed my kids, I don't think I grasped how much they missed us....by the time we got to our airport, the day had honestly been hellacious--Alice slept 2 out of about 30 hours and I had slept less-I dealt with her the whole time because she wouldn't let Charles hold her yet. At one point, the germophobe that I am, even laid down on the FLOOR of the plane just trying ANYTHING that might help her go to sleep--that is disgusting....we had been on three flights and on our long flight about 20 minutes before we landed, Alice, in all of her wiggliness, turned around backward in her seat and fell off. Her head hit the wall SO hard, the whole section of our plane gasped...she started crying and I picked her up and she cried a few minutes and then fell asleep...which, I know you should do after a hard hit, but she is 2 and hadn't slept in SUCH a long time, I figured she just got too tired and gave it up...she slept a few minutes and just before we landed, she woke up and acted strange..then, started to throw up...this was the flight that I had already spent the last few hours of, crying....and this just about sent me over the edge...she was lethargic and was not herself and she got herself a little concussion...it was awful....after everyone got off the plane, we got her cleaned up a little and the paramedics met us in the airport in Atlanta...by this time, it had been about 45 minutes since she fell and she began to perk up...praise the Lord! Our last flight was only 30-40 minutes...so by the time we landed at home, we had been through quite a day...luckily Charlie slept through every single minute and didn't even know anything happened until we told him...sooo, fast forward, to the airport....before I even saw one person, I was already crying....my heart was just hurting to see my babies....as we skyped while we were gone, i knew that it helped Max..we skyped with him in the mornings before school and then again before bed...but, when we would skype with Lucy, I told Charles, she is not ok...I KNOW her and she is not ok...she would not cry when we talked but she just had a look that a mama knows. We did not skype as much with her because I think it made it worse....little did I know all of the emotion my little angel was trying to manage...my sister said when the first person said "I see them", she started crying....and let me tell you, she did not stop crying for almost an hour after we were there...she just had so much emotion built up, she didn't know what to do with it....and it was the most pitiful cry ever...when we got in the car, Max said "mom, I had a little bit of tears" and I said 'baby, we all did. Mom had ALOT of tears"...it was precious....(this is all i can post for now, maybe i can do more later...enjoy:)..you should double click the ones of Max and Lucy--the expressions on their faces tell it all. I get emotional all over again every time i see these...so, without further ado...