A Mommy Story

I’m now at the Columbus airport, waiting for my first flight. I managed to keep down a light lunch, and I am mentally rehearsing getting on the plane every five minutes or so.

(Stand up, get in line, hand them the boarding pass, walk onto the plane. Stand up, get in line, panic and run away…no, wait, hand them the boarding pass, walk onto the plane.)

My mother is watching Cordy today, and she also dropped me off at the airport. I took a pic of Cordy and I in the backseat of the car. Saying goodbye to the warrior princess was probably the hardest goodbye I’ve ever done. I cried, I hugged her, I held her hand in the car. She responded by picking up her Blue’s Clues toy, hugging it, and saying “Awwww…itza Blue!” Thanks kid, good to know where your loyalties lie.

I’ve left her before, but usually only for one or two nights, and Aaron was with me. This time I’m all on my own, and I’m going to be much further away. I can’t get to her right away if I’m needed.

I’ve also made a fool of myself in the airport already. I haven’t been on a plane in 10 years – a lot of things have changed since then. For one, it was weird to not hand my luggage to the people at the counter, but to take it to the TSA people and hand it over to be searched while I continued on. I also didn’t realize what going through the security checkpoint was like. I had to give them my purse, my laptop bag, my laptop (YES! I have a laptop for the weekend! It wasn’t an ideal situation for us, but we put it on a credit card. Anyother 3 years of debt isn’t that much more, right?), and then they asked me to take my shoes off. Shoes? Yep. I’m wearing sandals, so I felt a little odd walking through security barefoot.

So, I will get on the plane, and I will hopefully update when I get to Dallas. One more big thank you to everyone for your support after we were robbed. It is a very sucky situation, but deciding to head to BlogHer will help me with getting my life back to normal. So thanks – you’re all awesome, and I wish all of you could be at the conference!

Now I must go pee before the plane is here. There’s no way I’ll be able to manuver into one of those airplane bathrooms.