Guess who lives in an area with heavy snow predicted for Wednesday? Guess who is supposed to leave for Disney Wednesday morning? Guess who decided to call the Disney, add a night to her stay, and leave a day early despite the cost, and the fact that her husband is away on business, requiring her to fly with all three kids by herself, while her husband watches Entourage reruns on his childless Jetblue flight to meet them? Guess who found out an hour after paying for the privilege of wrangling three children under ten solo on an airplane, that the airline was doing it for FREE, but she got charged? Guess who spent an hour on the phone getting her money back? Guess who has been packing for five people all day? Guess who, when the teenage babysitter showed up for her to run to Target to buy socks, sunglasses and sunscreen, discovered the thirty minutes the van door had been left open after school was enoughto kill the battery? Guess who then drove her babysitter's 1985 Toyota Corolla to CVS and discovered they carry all of those things, in the fourty-five minutes ot took Amex roadside sevice to show up? Guess who is on the couch with a glass of wine, wondering how she will possibly finish packing, get her hair done at nine (guess who refuses to have photographic evidence of one of the biggest trips of her children's lives with roots?), get the carpacked up and to her in-laws at eleven to drop off the dog, and make her flight without some sort of divine intervention?
Me.
See you on Sunday when we return. If I live that long. I fear some sort of TSA altercation where my children force an emergency landing. Alice, are those teacups full of wine?
1 comment:
Well, after all that, you deserve a wonderful vacation--filled with sunshine, laughter and beautiful memories. I hope you have safe and uneventful flights both ways.
I'll be here in the Hudson Valley, enduring the snow and being jealous. :-)
Susan C. in NY
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