September 19th-26th: Just Us

The return from Vermont to Utah had some perks the drive out didn’t have.  First of all, I wasn’t alone.  Lynne made the journey with me.  And secondly we were able to take time for some side trips.

First stop was at my son-in-laws private boarding school in Massachusetts.  It’s a gorgeous place called Northfield  Mount Hermon and visiting there I wished I’d been able to be educated there.  Of course  to afford to send me there my parents would have needed to win the lottery…twice!  But it was very, very cool.   I loved seeing Bucky and his dad in matching Northfield jerseys.  It will be interesting to see if Bucky follows in his dad’s educational footsteps.

After visiting the private prep school we took a side trip to the Peabody Museum at the campus of Yale.  Alex loved going there as a youth and hoped his son would get into it as well.  Bucky thought it was VERY cool, particularly all the dinosaur bones.   He treated us to the sounds he believed the dinosaurs made back in the day.   Quite convincing and very scary.

The rest of the journey was “catch up” time for Lynne and me.  Having an entire country to cross in a motorhome, together is the greatest communications retreat a couple could ever have.  It’s also an argument for the diet soda IV attachment I’m thinking of patenting.   Surely somebody besides me has thought of this!   Probably, but my idea is we could get all the different flavors to compete:  Diet Coke vs Diet Pepsi vs Diet Whatever offering amazing deals in order to get their logo on the IV device.   Hey, don’t laugh.  There’s a global economic crisis and I’m a SONGWRITER for crying out loud.  No potential income stream is rejected as “tacky”.

We’re back in Utah, carrying on with nursing home and day care responsibilities.  Grateful for each other, and for every second we’re alive.  Happy to have a chance every day to love a little more, learn a little more, give a little more.