I hate this. *

I’m going to be severely disappointing my brother and Marissa.

Mom, Noah, and I were planning on going out there either on late on Christmas Day, or the day after. And then I was going to have her take me to Jacksonville from there on the 28th, so we could meet Jake out there.

Well, I’ve decided that it’s best if Noah and I don’t go. It’s too much travel time for Noah, not to mention he’s not safe in Mom’s truck (her back seat isn’t big enough for his car seat to fit properly) – and it’d be MORE travel time for us to take my car and then have to come back out here. AND I think that all of those new people in such a short period of time is going to freak him out.

And, it’s causing problems with me and Jake. And as much as I love my family, Jake and Noah come first.

I just hate that my family is getting shafted, especially when this year was supposed to be their year for Christmas. But then we moved way the hell out here and that screwed everything up.

So, I talked to my mom. Told her that Noah and I wouldn’t be going to Danny’s. Told her all of the reasons above. She was actually really understanding about it, especially when I told her that Jake and I argued over it. She knows that it’s not worth causing problems in my marriage.

I wish people could come here to us. But Danny is doing his SEAL support group training again – which means that he is on call, on a pager, 24/7, and cannot leave the local area, and cannot take leave. Marissa finally got a job a few months ago, and she’s the assistant manager at her store – so she’ll definitely have to work the day after and all.

And the Jacksonville crew? There’s just too many of them. And Daddy is allergic to the cats – he can’t be in our house for 10 minutes without having a reaction to them. Not to mention, we’d have NO chance of seeing Carley (if Jake changes his mind and wants to try and see her, anyway).

*sigh* If we were in Fayetteville, this wouldn’t be an issue at all. Danny would only be about four hours away. And Jacksonville is only two hours away. That’d cut travel time pretty much in half. Maybe next year?

Jake did offer up a compromise, though. Even though he’s been wanting to save his vacation days until he HAS to use them (very much like the military’s "use or lose" system with leave), he’s willing to take a few days around my birthday so we could go to Danny’s. Sucks that they’d have to wait so long to see Noah, but…..such is life, I guess.

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