Travel

So, did I mention during my last post that the thing that concerned me most about the timing for having my gallbladder issues was that it might interfere with my ability to go see my grandparents in Indiana?  I love my family, but we are so very far apart and it gets so difficult to spend time together that I didn't want to miss even one possible day.  So we pushed it!  We got the Dr. go ahead and at just one week post op we headed up to see my grandparents and other assorted family. 

I remember being a kid and hearing other kids talk about visiting their grandparents as something horrible.  That was never the case for me.  For me the white farm house with green roof and shutters on a highway in Indiana was home.  It was constant.  It was full of love.  It was comfort.  When everything else in my life changed with every new order, that house stayed always welcoming.  Though I haven't officially lived in Indiana since I was a year old it has always been home to me.  My grandparents taught me how to love and every so often I need that fresh reminder of unconditional love despite the conditions of the world. 

Now, I know I referred to the rest of the family as assorted but they are much more than that.  My cousins have always been more like sisters to me.  Actually, as a little girl one of my cousins and I used to believe that we were actually with the wrong mothers.  I would say that my aunt gave me to my mother because I was only 10 months behind her first daughter and that my mother gave my middle cousin to my aunt as payment for me (she is a year younger than me.)  The only problem with that is that I am very obviously my dad's offspring.  Ha ha!    Anyway, the point of all this is that I love my family very much!

I am so glad we managed to make the trip.  We spent 9 whole days up there visiting and just being.  I suppose that most people don't think there is anything very vacation oriented to do in Indiana, but it is one of our favorite trips to make.  We sit and talk with my grandparents.  My boys play with my cousins boys.  We take trips to the county fair, us girls with our little boys.  We have good home cooked dinners where there are more people than can fit around any one table.  We traipse through Amish country and buy their yummies.  We watch our kids admire the fireworks together.  We just are.  And I hope that I can say we always will be.