Today I am back from a trip to Phoenix for some ELL training. While I was there I was able to visit with my parents a little in the evenings. That was nice. I have wonderful parents and I do not often get to see them so I was happy for the chance to visit them. The trip home was quite the adventure. I could feel myself falling asleep just between Superior (a town that I always refer to as "Inferior") and Miami. That is not a good thing since there are still about two hours of travel time to get home after getting to Miami. I decided that I would just keep driving and if I got too tired, I would pull over and sleep in the van. Then I noticed a bad odor. I wasn't sure where it was coming from, but thought that it might be from the car in front of us. I passed that car, but the smell stayed. I decided that I better stop in Miami and boy did I find a nice surprise. One of the little boys (name not mentioned to save future humiliation) had diarrhea after he had fallen asleep and it was EVERYWHERE. I only had napkins in the car to try to clean it up. He had a similar accident just before leaving Mesa and we had already thrown away his underwear as a result of that. So here it was 10:00(ish) at night, diarrhea everywhere, no running water to clean up the mess (literally), two more hours of travel time, and an exhausted mother with six other kids along. (Did I mention that Erica's friend had come along?) I decided that was the end of our travels for the day and we checked into a Motel 6. I had Tyler help me get his brother out of the van without getting poop on anything else. (He held the shoulders and I held the ankles.) The other kids took stuff necessary for sleeping into the room while I stripped him down from the waist down, threw the shorts away (there was no saving them), and hurriedly got him into the shower. After he was cleaned up, we all went to sleep with him nearest the bathroom. We slept in, which was nice, and arrived home in the early afternoon. I took a nap when I got home and I am still actually tired if you can believe that. Alex and Jared missed cub scout day camp, which was this morning, but there is another day of it tomorrow. Erica and Tyler are doing road shows tonight and tomorrow night so I took them to that this evening and will pick them up later on tonight. This weekend I plan to clean and do laundry. I am hoping to maybe pick up my neice on Monday for a short visit. TTFN. (Tigger quote.)