Come on in, 2013!!

Welcome, 2013!

We started the new year away from the kids, which was actually a hard struggle for me. After a stressful year in general, 10+ days of non-stop kiddos “sick” with the Christmas Crazies and the busy-ness of the past few months, a couple of days away from the kiddos was an awesome break!  Matt and I had dinner out without worrying about getting home to a sitter, slept in (sort of), and cleaned the house without it getting messed up 5 mins later (unless you count Matt and his gum wrappers!! Love you sweetie!!!). But on the flip side, I missed them terribly and after the stressful year, a HUGE part of me just wanted to be kissing their sleeping cheeks at midnight instead of at a concert. But it was The Avett’s so….. 

We had lunch at a barbeque restaurant when we picked them up. Will, who was sitting across the table from me, looked like he had aged 5 years in the 2 days we were apart!!  It was awesome to have the “what have you been doing?” conversation with him and hear all about his adventures and listen to his animated stories.  And he and Avery both loved hearing about all the things from the concert because they, by default if nothing else, are Avett’s fans too! And Avery was of course glued to me as she missed her mama!!

To keep our tradition going, we had the traditional New Year’s Day meal with Jessica and Kyle. It was our year to host and it made for a bit of crazy day as we were traveling back to Greensboro from our concert the night before, traveling again to pick up the kids from my parents and then getting home to cook. But I think deep down I thrive on chaos so it was just fine to me!

Unfortunately the kids behavior was WAY less than stellar that evening but I still managed to get a few pictures. I wish I had taken more (I think that might need to be my resolution for the year) because there were some funny moments where they were pretending to have “big tummies” like pregnant Aunt J and then just general silliness with Uncle K.

Nice to meet you, 2013!!!