It's All About the Waiting

I like things right now. I mean come on, anything worth having is worth having right now. When we are hungry, we want fast food...and it better be good. When we want to get somewhere, well we just zip there and back in no time. We want to get better and we want it now...or as Jim Morrison says "we want the world and we want it NOW"!
But as I have said in my former post, getting anywhere is taking lots of extra time. Mimi and Pa are currently residing in a Holiday Inn Express in Sacramento. We have traveled for two days and we have gone exactly 12 hours...with another 4 to go....if all goes well. In the old days we would travel 16 hours in one day...but these aren't those days.
But we sit here and tomorrow we will hopefully pick up Jacob at the Sac Airport at 9 AM. Then we have to wait for another 3 hours for GiGi (Tracey's mom...real name Daphne) to come in from SoCal. Then we head for Yosemite....should make it right around 5 if we don't hit snow or ice.
I am ready to be in Yosemite already...I mean I'd like to be there right now. I love Yosemite...I have been there at least 30 times and have spent the equivelent of a year of my life there, climbing, backpacking, hiking, ice skating, playing in the snow with my kids, sneaking in to the Ahwahne Hotel pretending to be a rich person...some of the best times in my life have been spent there. And now, something I could never imagine...cruising Yosemite with my grandkids. Wow...when did my life flash by me...my GK's for Christmas in Yosemite...its amazing. I can't wait...

Jackson (6)

Aidan (3)

Chloe (7 months today)

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Well, Mimi and Pa are off on another adventure. We have loaded up Van the Man (our VW Bus) and are heading south to Yosemite for Christmas. When M and P travel, they like to go with the flow, roll with the wind, and tumble like the tumbleweeds.
But this trip, we have the kids we're traveling with. I mean our grown up kids and their kids. Traveling with a family of five (in their own car) is different. They stop more, they take longer at those stops, and it is always very noisy. Lots of "I Wants" and "I Don't Want To's". When you are middle aged and approaching middle age (like Mimi is), your tolerance for those kinds of things is a little thin. It kind of makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck...until...well until they say..."PA...MIMI...we love you." This statement is usually accompanied by a big hug and a squeeze...suddenly...it all seems worth it. All the different demands and schedules and stops seem so worth it...so...well...looked forward to.
Now don't get me wrong...the freedom and independance to do what you want is still very attractive. But the joy of interuptions far out weighs the joy of independance. It's kinda like what happens with God. It is awesome to have independance, but it is always better to have Him interupt your schedule. Yeah...grandkids are clearly from God. As we always say...Grandkids are your reward for not killing your own kids.