A very funny story--NOW!!

So... the night before Raleigh and I left for Hawaii, we had made arrangements for the kids to go to various places. Quincey was at her grandma's in Nevada. Brayden was at my mom's in St. George and Allie and Morgan were flying to their dad's. Raleigh took them to the airport. They were there 2 hours early and then their flight was delayed. So they sat and sat. The girls seemed excited to be flying and kept saying things like "where is the plane? Let's go" Finally the time to board came. Allie started getting nervous. Raleigh was getting their carry on items gathered up and she was getting more and more agitated. As they were getting on the plane, he lined them up against the wall and took this picture. Just look at the look on her face. It looks like she is going to kill someone. Well, he put them on the plane, they shut the doors and he left to go to his hair appointment (that he was late for due to the plane delay). He was half way to the car when he hears over the PA "Raleigh Lund please return to gate B4, to pick up your daughter" He ran back to the gate to find a nearly hysterical Allie and a completely hysterical flight attendant. "Take her" she said. "She caused a huge scene on the plane and the pilot is refusing to let her board. She needs to go. She has caused us to be even more delayed. Passengers are very upset with her... take her, take her home."

Poor Raleigh was thinking... How did I get myself into this situation? Who does this? Who has kids like this? And who is this little person and how could she cause this much chaos? She is only 6 years old. And why is she my daughter? I have only been a dad for a month now and this is the most embarrassing thing a parent has ever had to deal with in the history of parenthood.

He took her by the hand and walked ever so dejectedly through the airport. Saying to her "what is wrong with you? what am I going to tell your mom? Are you a crazy person? Now my hair is going to be stupid on my honeymoon" And she said NOTHING. She offered him no explanation, no apologies. In her 6 year old mind she was perfectly in the right to have done this. She didn't want to fly. It was okay that she left her sister on the plane by herself. It was okay that the pilot is now flying 140 people across several states in an agitated and uptight state of mind. It's okay that now we have this girl, with no where to go, and we are leaving on a plane to Hawaii in 12 hours. It's all okay, because she was terrified of that plane and no one makes her do anything that she doesn't want to.

So, when I found out, I instantly became hysterical like I do. And I called my ex husband who at the exact same time as he was hearing what happened on our end is seeing that ONLY ONE of his daughters is exiting the plane. And HE bless his heart jumped in the car and drove all night to get her.

Ahhhh... the joys of parenthood. Here you go, Ral. Here is your first test as a new dad.

His grade??? An A+ (because he didn't kill her)