Families are like branches on a tree, you grow in different directions but your roots remain the same.

Our newest niece was born this week, and we find ourselves in a car headed in the opposite direction of holding her. Why? Because our nephew is also waiting to see us who lives on the complete other side of the country from the newest niece.

Our hearts were bummed when the littlest decided not to be born early and then went so far as to be born a week late. Our window to visit her before our Texas trip had closed. It’s times like these when being a Faraway Aunt and Uncle is no fun at all. Arriving at Christmas with boatloads of toys or sending surprise packages in the mail, those are the fun Faraway Aunt & Uncle times!

However, that’s how life goes when your family is spread far and wide!

So Texas here we come!!

We had very little traffic heading out of Atlanta which I was super grateful for. The girls and I had the car packed and the house cleaned by 2. We were anxiously awaiting Daddy to get home from work! We left around 6:30, excited to be on our way. Texas holds some of our favorite places, our favorite food, and our family!

Family isn’t whose blood you carry. It’s who you love and who loves you!

We did well traveling, although when it came time to find a hotel, we couldn’t! It was crazy that we couldn’t really find anything where we wanted to stay. Small town Mississippi was busy! We ended up actually having to stop an hour and half earlier than we had planned because that’s where there was room in the inn! 😜

It’s a good thing too, because we were tired!

My expert travelers! They do so good, wherever we go, but their favorite places to visit are homes to their cousins.