WOW can you say CRAZY?!? Solo and I left on Friday the 1st with my parents and younger brother to drive for 12 to 14 hours down to Miss'ippi, where my mothers mother is. Once there we spent time swimming, because my wonderful daughter slept through the nighttime car ride and refused to nap as early as mommy wanted to. HOWEVER She did end up sleeping for about 2 hours once she did take a nap so this mommy was able to catch up on some sleep :). Every year when I was younger, my family and I would make the long drive down to MS and AL to visit my mothers family. Everything was always the same. Spend some time with her mom, then spend time at Gulf Shores, and lastly visit her father in AL.
Its weird how some places you go to or spend a lot of time at become like a second home. Thats how this place is to me. Im a fan of old small towns, but my grandmothers town is a bit TOO small for me. Yet its still a comfortable place with friendly people and people that know everyone in town. Every year the house is always the same, everything always in the same place, always smells the same, always has the same cool and refreshing feel to it.. Out there in the pool with my own daughter it made me feel a little sad. My daughter wont know what it was like for me growing up visiting this place every year. Eating watermelon slices on the back porch RIGHT after jumping out of the pool, only to hop right back in once we were finished. Laying on one of the benches on the back porch in the middle of the night looking at everything in the sky that you cant see in the city. Trying (and failing) to catch the little fence lizards running along the fences or porch railings. There are so many memories that I have at that house. I cant help but feel a little sad that this might be my last vacation with my family like this. Im married, Im a mommy, Im moving, Im going to graduate college soon... things wont be the same again. I know we will still visit this house, but I know that once my grandmother is gone, the house will be different.. maybe not completely.. but it wont be the same.
The drive back to Indy was one that couldve gone better. Too many delays had us home around midnight instead of 9 or 10pm. HOWEVER in my car I had my older brother and his girlfriend (and Solo of course). My brother is currently re-reading the Animorph series. Now if you know what Im talking about youll know that this series is definitely a fast read and probably a 3rd to 4th grade reading level. My brother brought quite a few along and since we definitely had some time to kill we read some. My brother read the first one aloud, then I read one aloud, and then his girlfriend read one aloud. We found ourselves laughing out loud at some parts, it amused us that these books could make us laugh as adults when we probably never even got the jokes when we read them as kids.
Getting home at midnight (and unloading my brother and his girlfriend) got me on the road to MY home around 1230 meaning I didnt get there until around 130am. Solo, thankfully, had been soundly asleep since around 1030pm. She didnt move a muscle until I turned the car off. Hubs was there to get her out and take her upstairs to her bed right when we got there so that she didnt really wake up.
Im glad we spent the time and energy to take this vacation. There were a few things I wish had gone better and yet I wouldnt change it because its what has been for the past 15 years almost.. Thats such a long time when I see it written (or typed in this case). Just another example of the age old truth.. we keep on going, one step at a time.
Its weird how some places you go to or spend a lot of time at become like a second home. Thats how this place is to me. Im a fan of old small towns, but my grandmothers town is a bit TOO small for me. Yet its still a comfortable place with friendly people and people that know everyone in town. Every year the house is always the same, everything always in the same place, always smells the same, always has the same cool and refreshing feel to it.. Out there in the pool with my own daughter it made me feel a little sad. My daughter wont know what it was like for me growing up visiting this place every year. Eating watermelon slices on the back porch RIGHT after jumping out of the pool, only to hop right back in once we were finished. Laying on one of the benches on the back porch in the middle of the night looking at everything in the sky that you cant see in the city. Trying (and failing) to catch the little fence lizards running along the fences or porch railings. There are so many memories that I have at that house. I cant help but feel a little sad that this might be my last vacation with my family like this. Im married, Im a mommy, Im moving, Im going to graduate college soon... things wont be the same again. I know we will still visit this house, but I know that once my grandmother is gone, the house will be different.. maybe not completely.. but it wont be the same.
The drive back to Indy was one that couldve gone better. Too many delays had us home around midnight instead of 9 or 10pm. HOWEVER in my car I had my older brother and his girlfriend (and Solo of course). My brother is currently re-reading the Animorph series. Now if you know what Im talking about youll know that this series is definitely a fast read and probably a 3rd to 4th grade reading level. My brother brought quite a few along and since we definitely had some time to kill we read some. My brother read the first one aloud, then I read one aloud, and then his girlfriend read one aloud. We found ourselves laughing out loud at some parts, it amused us that these books could make us laugh as adults when we probably never even got the jokes when we read them as kids.
Getting home at midnight (and unloading my brother and his girlfriend) got me on the road to MY home around 1230 meaning I didnt get there until around 130am. Solo, thankfully, had been soundly asleep since around 1030pm. She didnt move a muscle until I turned the car off. Hubs was there to get her out and take her upstairs to her bed right when we got there so that she didnt really wake up.
Im glad we spent the time and energy to take this vacation. There were a few things I wish had gone better and yet I wouldnt change it because its what has been for the past 15 years almost.. Thats such a long time when I see it written (or typed in this case). Just another example of the age old truth.. we keep on going, one step at a time.