Today is our last day to get ready and cover all our bases before setting off at four in the morning for first Calgary and then Cancun!!!
I have had an amazing time with the Kathy family the last few days. All three of her girls were here plus new wee Gordon. What a special time. He is one gorgeous baby!!! And Emily and Drew are turning out to be almost perfect parents. I would say perfect but...well nothing is actually perfect! But I can't think of one thing they do wrong or wonky. And Emily is just so relaxed and so comfy with sharing her baby with all of us. And I can honestly say I wish I had had a Drew when I had all my babies. He is actually one dad that is a dad...not a 'babysitter'. He is such a natural with Gordon. It has been a real family time...which I have super been needing. I don't see family very often.
I also saw Anne a couple of times. Her gorgeous nineteen year old grandson is living with her while he attends the university here. I have known him since he was born. But I only get to see him once in a blue moon.
The first day I was there we decided to order Chinese food to celebrate Anne's 81st birthday. We could have gone out but I really wanted to see Max. So we ordered enough food to sink a ship. They ate the leftovers for two more days and then some! It was awesome and of course Anne and I talked a blue streak! One time when we were a little younger we talked for 17 hours straight!!! I kid you not!!!
So now it is time to seriously put some personal filters in place. I go months and months not seeing people and it's clear I have regressed on my conversational skills. I am too loud, too strong in opinion, too ready to share my research knowledge, too too too. It's kinda like the thoughts dammed up in my head suddenly burst through.
I can't talk to Monte. He just takes over and I don't get a chance to say anything for the next hour. Although what he says is totally interesting. And I don't see Ange anymore. She has taken over the bathroom downstairs so she has no need to come upstairs. When she used to I would have things to share and I think she felt trapped and totally uninterested in my musings. She was very polite and patient about it!!!
Both Monte and Ange are loners. They seem quite happy with absolutely no one in their lives and no interest in changing that. I am not like that. I love visiting and learning about people and who they are and their histories. Those two clearly do not. Sigh.
But I do talk with the girls by text and I get to talk to all you lovely folks!!! Thank goodness. And you always have the option of not reading this thing and I would never know. hahaha!!! Not like poor Ange sliding down the stairs trying to get away while I am finishing a story. Or Monte just flat out saying 'I have to go'. I shall practice with all the people going with us to Mexico. I think almost all of them used our Maui condo occasionally.
I remembered at the last minute I needed to update and buy health insurance for this trip. By the time we were through it was 330 bucks. Kathy had a great suggestion of using Costco. They were probably cheaper but the thought of reading out to them all the names of all the unpronounceable pills and their amounts etc...was too daunting. Easier to just pay and trust that BCAA, who has the list already, isn't all that much more.
So now I must go and finish cleaning up this lovely little suite downstairs here in preparation of leaving in the middle of the night. What a treat this place is! I will have wifi and my laptop in Mexico so I shall be posting and probably sharing inappropriate pictures!!! TFL & TTYL
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