To Grandmother's House!

So today I went with my family to my grandmother's house. She hasn't been doing well and since it's rare when my family is down in VA now, we took the opportunity to go down...at least the 5 of us :)

I left Sean prepping for bed around 9am, and by 9:30ish we were off and driving...in 95 South traffic. Oh yeah, with rain. It was a marvelous time!

I had brought cards, but that's not something you can easily play in the car, even in traffic. Phil decided to turn on the family's laptop and plug in "Alice in Wonderland" which I had borrowed from them yesterday but didn't watch. So, we plugged in the movie and watched it...riiiight up to the part where (SPOILER) Alice finally starts remembering everything. Then the laptop warned us it was at 6%....boo!

We landed at my grandma's place and piled out. By the end of this, it was a 2-turned-to-3 hour car ride, and I was feeling green. However, I stuffed it down, said hi to my great aunt Fleet, and gave my grandma a hug :) Eventually we had some food and that settled my stomach down, as well as not watching a bouncing computer screen in the car ;-)

I got to give my grandma a framed picture of her, Sean, and I from our wedding:


She is having trouble seeing, but LOVED it:) I felt bad that Sean couldn't be there to give it to her as well, but passed on her thanks to him! We talked, ate, laughed, watched the GSN (Game Show Network....eh, it's better than the soaps!), and played Phase 10. My dad's sisters and parts of their families showed up, but we didn't get to see my uncle and his wife/2 kids. However, we had only warned them a few hours before we were there that we were coming down to visit!

Before long, we were packing up the cards, giving out hugs and kisses and well wishes to everyone, and heading back to Northern VA. Tim called our grandma while we were leaving, then tried calling us. My grandma lives about an hour outside Fredericksburg - there's pretty much a main road that her place is at that leads you TO everything...eventually ;) So we didn't get Tim's call until about 30 minutes after leaving her place. We talked to him - mostly Mom and Dad! - for 30 minutes! Once we hung up, Phil, Sam, and I waited anxiously for the road to become less bumpy, then we finished Alice. Awesome movie!

The rest of the trip all 3 of us slept in the backseats. Once we landed where my family is staying, I jumped out with my stuff and drove back to the apartment to see my beloved before he went in for another 12 hour shift:-(

And now I'm sitting here talking to him on the phone and debating going and getting McDonalds...I have a large craving for chicken nuggets and unhealthy fries!:-)

Fun Times on the Farm....land

I love making memories. Especially with my Grammy. While making meatloaf. Well, homemade bread crumbs for the meatloaf. And laughing about how my mother will never accept HER mother's ideas.....to think this runs in the family! (hurrah!)

I really do enjoy this relaxing in Vermont, but I'm starting to get bored. I guess this means I should start evaluating things to do while I have this time on my hands...BEFORE my BIBL 105 class starts (the horrors of it all....):

- knitting (bought yarn at Walmart the other night in addition to some cute shoes, gum, and other randomness I happened to see)
- read for BIBL (3 books, 2 of which are here, go along with the DVDs that my friend is sending me for my DLP class)
- read "For Women Only" (real good book, but I can't seem to settle down and just READ it!)
- read "Ethan Frome" or "The Scarlet Letter" or another classic (goal for this summer: read a TON of classics to prep me for the fall)
- jog! (no joke, I have at least 1 brother and 1 beautiful Foxy waiting to go with me jogging if I only had the urge to do so! fast metabolisms ruin a lot of things!!)

Maybe I should just get myself off this computer and go eat and go do some reading....

Though I must interject that I DID see the whole movie of Pollyanna tonight. I cried at the end. So I apparently missed the part of her being paralyzed and needing surgery in Baltimore. What else have I missed in my 21 years?!

*PS - Foxy = our dog, mutt of many breeds including possible german shepherd and beagle? she's a 2(?) year old loveable pooch