Last Night in Mount Rushmore KOA

It's our last night here, and I have to say, by far has this been the best day weather wise.  I spent the morning doing laundry, which was a welcome break away from the kids.  Managed to get 4 loads of laundry dirty since Saturday morning when we left, which is sort of amazing considering I was really trying to conserve clothes, but oh well.

I'm really excited about tomorrow night.  We are meeting my friends from Winnipeg CA, Joelle, Kent, Carter and Grayson in Sioux Falls KOA.  We also possibly might meet up with my friend Aimee and crew there as well.  This trip is getting more exciting by the minute.  It's hard to believe that tomorrow night, I will be camping with some very dear friends.

Rick just called me a wuss because I'm not writing what he wants me to write at this very moment, but I'm digressing.

This weekend is going to be amazing.  Maybe you won't get it.  I'm not sure anyone but the "May Mommy's" will get this weekend.

We met, almost 6 years ago on an Internet due date forum on www.about.com.  As our babies were born, one by one, beginning with Brian, we became a close knit group of people.  After all the babies were born, sometime in August of 03, we closed the group down, went private and elected not to let anyone that was not already in the group in.  We have lost a few members over the years, but for the most part, we have the same people we started with.  To say we are close, that is an understatement.  This group of people, of whom I've only met 3 in person, has been the biggest support system I've had, hands down.  They were the people I called first when Leslie was in the NICU, when I was life flighted out of Helena to Great Falls.  They are the ones I go to first, for every thing I am unsure of.  There is not much this group of women do not know about me, or I know about them.

We know each others husbands, who they are, what they do.  We know all the kids, and pretty much every thing about those kids.  There is unfailing support for me, and for them in this group.  We know we are special.  We've been through the very happiest of times together, as well as the darkest of times.  Our husbands have quit questioning the "May Mommies", and what they mean.  They get it.  It has felt funny, to say to people, I'm going to meet a group of women I know from the Internet to people in my "real life".  Then I think, these women are my real life.  They are my best friends.  How lucky am I?

So, when we decided to plan a trip to meet, finally in "real life", for the kids 5th birthday celebration, various husbands were pretty much on board.  We've been planning this upcoming weekend for about 6 months, or about 6 years, depending on how you look at it, and who you ask.

I can't wait, I have hope in my heart and babies I need to "smash".

Over and out from South Dakota!

Comments

[Monica]

I wish you could be too, but I know you will be in spirit...

Love you too!

I'll take lots of pictures and you take care of that little Julie.

[Heather]

I so wish I could be there. Have the best of times! Love ya!