We made it home just fine & Little Bug traveled well again.

Dave picked us up from the airport and then he had to go back to work at 9pm. (January is a very busy month for him because of the nature of his job.)

So, Little Bug is in bed and I thought I’d write a post about something funny (although it wasn’t funny at the time) that happened on the day of my cousin’s wedding.

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We all know I am Mrs. Prepared for Everything. I guess it goes hand in hand with my perfectionism?!?

Well, my child is now 7.5 months old and up until four days ago (the day of my cousin’s wedding) I had NEVER left home without packing the essentials necessary for baby in the diaper bag.

So it is the day of Jonathan’s wedding. We arrive to the church at 12:30pm for family pictures. Wedding is at 2pm.

Little Bug was due to eat around 2pm which was going to be perfect since I knew she was also very tired and figured she would fall asleep eating.

Around 1:30pm, half an hour before the wedding is to start, Mrs. Prepared for Everything gets the diaper bag out from the bottom of the stroller to prepare Little Bug’s bottle for the 2pm feeding.

I grab a bottle and unzip the diaper bag to get the formula … which isn’t there!

My mom is standing right there with me and I say, “Mama! I forgot the formula!! I cannot believe I did this!”

We both panicked for a split second because we were in an unfamiliar city with no transportation and a baby that would be screaming for a bottle in half an hour as the wedding was about to start!

Mama immediately went to action by walking up to a complete stranger and asking, “We have a baby emergency. Can you tell us where we can go buy formula near here?”

They were from out of town and had no clue.

So my mom turns around and finds another person who happened to have lived 5 minutes from the church a while ago and told my mom there was a CVS five minutes down the road.

Score! We now knew where to go to get the formula and now we just needed transportation to get there.

My aunt’s brother-in-law came to the rescue. He drove me to the CVS.

I ran like a crazy woman through CVS trying to find the formula (which is not in the baby section).

I think the check-out guy knew I was in a hurry because he didn’t even attempt the usual “How are you today?”. He just took my credit card and check me out as fast as he could.

We got back to the church with about 20 minutes to spare!

I waited until 5 minutes before the wedding started to go sit down with the family at the front of the church.

Little Bug played with my purse and the first cry she made, I gave her the bottle.

And, like I had predicted, she fell asleep while eating. She slept until 5 minutes before the ceremony was over!

Like I said before, this trip really did a world of good for me in learning to go with the flow more.

This was the ultimate test, I suppose! I stayed calm, we got formula and now I’ll have a funny story to tell Little Bug about the day her Uncle Jonathan got married.

- Elaine