Carlyn

The kids and I headed to AL in early June for my brother's wedding.  James stayed behind in Arkansas because he was leaving soon for a medical mission trip to Romania and then on to Canada for a medical conference. We stopped to see some of our besties in Memphis(Lidia, Rusty & kids), stopped to go to the Mcwane in Birmingham, and then made it all the way to my Meemaw's house.  We left our house at 7:30am and finally got to her house at 10:15pm.  It's a 9 hr trip(without stops), and we only stopped in Memphis and Birmingham. They were long stops, which helped break up the trip, but made for a long day.  But, I was pretty happy we made it all the way there in one day.  My kids are normally in bed at 7pm, so it was pretty wild to have them out that late.  It really took us all a full day to recover, but it was worth it to already be there.  Knox did great on the trip and only cried about 15 minutes, and that was on the last hour.  Luther(who for...