Vacation Prep
Nov. 20th, 2003 07:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
in_the_blueIt's hard to believe that in a mere two days I'll be getting up way before the crack of dawn to get to the airport and go through the security hassle and get on a plane headed east. The older I get, the less I look forward to this disruption.
Okay, so I do it for my parents. They're in their 80s, and Thanksgiving has always been my mom's very favorite holiday. I do it for her. But as Hannah gets more and more involved in school, we start to miss more critical things by pulling her out for five or six days so we can make this trek.
So maybe this is the last Thanksgiving we do this long long long trip. Maybe next year we convince everyone to come out here. That would be nice. It would take a lot of stress off my parents.
But this year we go, and we see my parents' new home, and we stay and play and do whatever we can. And of course, give thanks for it all.
And try to squeeze out a little alone time to be online. Hell, I'm sure there's a Kinkos near them if nothing else.
Okay, so I do it for my parents. They're in their 80s, and Thanksgiving has always been my mom's very favorite holiday. I do it for her. But as Hannah gets more and more involved in school, we start to miss more critical things by pulling her out for five or six days so we can make this trek.
So maybe this is the last Thanksgiving we do this long long long trip. Maybe next year we convince everyone to come out here. That would be nice. It would take a lot of stress off my parents.
But this year we go, and we see my parents' new home, and we stay and play and do whatever we can. And of course, give thanks for it all.
And try to squeeze out a little alone time to be online. Hell, I'm sure there's a Kinkos near them if nothing else.
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Date: 2003-11-20 10:02 pm (UTC)In my dad's family's case, we do tend to visit my grandparents for the holidays even though they're both fit and willing to travel. This year I heard quite a few relatives were coming to visit from Canada, the US, and maybe even Italy and Switzerland!
(On the other hand, my mom and her siblings take turns hosting the annual Christmas get-together.)
Re: the T-shirt, aw, SHUX, you don't have to do that! *hugs* Even though it may not look it because he likes to wear the same shirts over and over, Hex has more T-shirts than he knows what to do with :D
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Date: 2003-11-20 10:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-21 12:52 am (UTC)I already have two of those! LOL