Anticipation

   I have often written before about not overlooking the day I am in, instead looking with anticipation to the next days on the calendar. I try not to do that too much, but when I think about going to see any of my grand kids, the days leading up to that appear small indeed.

   We don't get to see any of them enough, and the older we get, the more difficult it is to travel long distances and live out of a suitcase. Seeing our kids, now mothers and fathers and getting middle-aged, is great and we enjoy those times a lot, but the ones growing up so fast without us near, those are the ones that tug on your heart.

   So, tomorrow we go to VA for a couple of days. We had Drew down here for a week or so, back in July, but did not get to see his sisters at all. Summers seem so short and so busy for all of them, that there is just not that much time to squeeze in a week with everyone of them. We just do it as we can, and, before their school begins at the end of next week, we'll get a couple of days to play. Some one-on-one time with each can fill our tanks for another period without pre-teens around.

   With one grand son away at college, a grand daughter a junior in high school, an eleven year old in Arkansas with his sister of seven, and those three in VA, eleven, nine and seven, we'll turn around one day soon, and all will be adults.

   So, I break my own rule and anticipate anyway. We all have to have some things to look forward to in our lives, and it is a long time till Christmas.

   Hit the road.