Today

Today is our twenty-sixth wedding anniversary. We celebrated yesterday morning by going out for breakfast. If we hadn’t, the rest of the week was looking too busy to do anything resembling a celebration. Not only is today our wedding anniversary but it’s also the day we travel ‘up and across’ to the town when Son#2 marries his beautiful bride this coming Saturday. What can I say? As a family we’re looking forward to the privilege of welcoming this beautiful girl into our family. And the Most Adorable Granddaughters in the World finally get a ‘real’ auntie after only knowing five uncles!

When we return on Monday we will be down two family members. Naturally Son#2 will not be with us. He will be with his new wife – as he should be. But DH will not be with us either. Sunday morning he flies out to India to build homes for tsunami victims. It’s all too easy for those of us in the Western World to forget about these disasters soon after they’ve occurred but for the people affected it can literally be years before the pieces of their lives are put back together in any sort of order. Such is the case of the area where he will be staying and working.

So I’ll make the trip back without DH but with three teenage sons all asking me if they can have a turn at driving. I don’t think so! As much as I hate driving, I hate being in the passenger seat even more when they’re in the driver’s seat. Since I've never driven far on New Zealand roads it should be an interesting trip to say the least.

When we get back I hope to finish the wedding quilt (just the binding to go!), do some more writing, and enjoy what is supposedly meant to be a holiday from work. But with the change in family dynamics, things are going to be quite different around here for a while.