Countdown to Thanksgiving - Sleep

Today I'm grateful for sleep. After getting very little sleep Monday night because we were up all night packing, packing, supervising the loading of the truck, and finishing last-minute errands all day yesterday, and leaving Providence at 11:30 last night, we were exhausted, to say the least. I was trying to focus all of my sad energy into driving energy but it only lasted me to New Haven so we stopped and got a hotel room.

It's amazing how much better we felt eight hours later (minus Liam waking up twice) later. One thing Will taught me early on in our relationship was that he valued sleep much more than I. I have definitely adopted his sleep habits and cannot believe that there was a time that I survived quite happily on three or four hours of sleep a night.

Earlier yesterday evening, our lack of sleep manifested itself quite clearly. After the movers left with their (very full) truck, I cleaned while Will tackled the final pile that remained - the stuff that we needed with us either for the cross-country drive or the first week or so we're in Utah before our stuff arrives. After playing tetris with the final bags for quite a while, we decided that we needed more space and went to look for a car-top luggage carrier. After doing some research, we realized that we didn't want to hang out another day to find someone to install a rack on our car. So, we were in Sports Authority and decided that we needed to buy a new car. We will probably need one soon anyway and ours has been paid off for a while so why not last night? We hastily looked up the closest Nissan dealership and drove off in search of a new vehicle (to caravan with across the country - we weren't planning on trading in our car). Luckily the dealership was about ten minutes away and by the time we got there we had returned to our senses (or were just too tired to get out of the car and talk to someone about a new car). However, we've only driven 4 hours and have a good 36+ left to go, so don't be surprised if we lose all sense of reason and do something crazy...

Speaking of sleep, I'm already needing some again. Tomorrow this blog deserves a better post. Until then, Happy Thanksgiving Eve!