Charlyn’s Web

Time has been flying!

Zing!

What was that?  Oh,  just two weeks of my life.

We went to the Wet Side of the state to celebrate my parent’s Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary.   I had planned most of it and was not handling the stress well, as you can see from my Packing post before we left.  What to wear?  Did I remember everything for the party?  Then we got there and I thought of the things I needed but didn’t have.  Sigh. I put together a tri-fold poster-board of their younger years, their wedding pictures and then some photos of us as a family. That took time but was fun.  The Adults in the family, yes- we let The Col. come along, went out to dinner on Saturday night.  HP and his older cousin were in charge of themselves but we had a neighbor teenager came over to supervise the girls.  They thought she was neat.  It was very nice, although the outfit I had planned on wearing didn’t work out  but luckily I had over packed.  The bad part was then I carried a cream purse while wearing black.  I am sure EVERYONE who saw me was flabbergasted at my fashion faux pas.  Probably ruined their dinners.

Many people came to the Open House;  Mom was thrilled that some of her old friends that she hadn’t seen in years came.  It was lovely.

Then we changed our clothes, packed things up and headed home because The Col.’s Folks were already here after driving from another state.  We spent a fun week with them.  The kids had a wonderful time and I think they did too!  We took them to exciting places like our favorite grocery store in the city about an hour from here.  Yes, I said “grocery store”.  It’s a neat place with cheap and good produce- no meat though as it’s run by vegetarians.   Then The Col. took them to his doctor’s appointment.  Come visit us and you too can share the excitement.  Then come back to the home place and have kids climb all over you while they are singing at the top of their lungs.  Ah, life with three kids….

We have been talking for quite awhile about our car situation.  All of ours are OLD.  I heard some people talking about their “old” cars the other day and I had to laugh.  They were talking about their 1991 models and I informed them that our “newbie” is an ’86 and we aren’t even driving it.  The ones we are driving are older than that and have over 250,000 and 300,000 miles on them.  The three car seats are crammed into the back of the main run around car so tightly it’s hard to get the belt buckled around HP and his booster.  Hardly any leg room in the back because the front seat has to be so far back for The Big Tall Guy.   But being cheap, oops,”frugal” we didn’t relish the thought of car payments.  So The Col. started combing through Consumer Reports for recommendations and searching Ebay.   He found a used one he liked and went for it.  So we are now the owners of something we never thought we’d own- hold on to your seats, a Mini-Van!!!! Gasp!  What a difference a few years and a few kids makes.  The van is a 2001 Honda Odyssey and was in Reno, Nevada.  The owner very generously offered to meet us on the state line.  So Saturday we caravaned with Gramma and Grampa a ways down the road and then took off for  a total of a 6 hour drive.  We messed around looking at the van etc. for a couple of hours then headed back.  We pulled in at midnight.  I don’t think us Old Folks are fully recovered yet.  But we really like the van.  It’s comfortable for all of us- even the Tall One.  Lots of leg room.  We can stand outside the doors to buckle the kids up without straining our backs.

That’s been our adventures!  Maybe things will slow down a bit now.

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