I made a trip home for the holiday with the worst luck. The
trip didn’t get off to a good start. I thought I had everything sorted before I
left—but alas, no. When a friend came to pick me up, I kept hearing water
running. It was on the wrong side of the house from everything that I thought
it could be. I even had a couple of rattling pipes. So, my friend, who was nice enough to drive us home, advised I
turn off the main line water; so she had to wait while I ran in to do it. Then,
an hour into the trip, I started looking. Wiggles DVDs: check. DVD player:
check. Plug the DVD player in the cigarette lighter… Oh no. I forgot the cord.
We saw a Target, got turned around and finally got in there. I ran in. No, I
really don’t want to buy a $70 DVD player when we already have 4. The guy at
Target told me Radioshack was 2 doors down; so we went in there. Mind you, Boop
has no shoes, and I’m carrying 38 lb. baby and DVD player in a mad dash through
Target and mall. Fortunately, they were able to test the cords in the DVD
player because it took us some time to figure out the right one, even though
several seemed to fit. Feeling exhausted, yet? That was just the first hour of
the trip. Fortunately, my friend is a very patient person.
All I’ve heard the past couple of weeks from Boop was Uncle
B this and Uncle B that. So when we finally made it, I had one very happy
little girl who got to see Aunt D and Uncle B—and one very happy Winnie who
quickly established her spot on Uncle B’s lap. I got to hang out with a friend
from college—hadn’t seen her little ones since they were babies who are in
middle school now. And see my middle school friend, her husband, and one of my
2nd mothers, and have some very good fried chicken, for a change. Boop
was ‘on’ at the dinner house—talking and singing, but she had conked out when I
went to see my friend from college. That at least gave us a bit of time to
talk.
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