Some of you may remember the Weekly Smile, a feature I participated in and hosted by Trent. He stopped doing it for awhile but it is back this week! Yay!
I’ve been MIA for a long while. There is so much going on that it has my head spinning. I feel like I am going through the motions of being where I am needed, not necessarily where I want to be. But there are smiles in these days anyway.
Tina, my daughter, moved about a month ago. Five weeks, I think. And the boys started school the week before they moved so for that first week, I was driving them to school in the morning and picking them up in the afternoon. Spencer, in kindergarten, had a different schedule so there were four round trips each day. It’s not a long drive, about twenty-five miles each way. However, it is on a major freeway that takes everyone from around any place near Portland to and from the airport and beyond. There is also construction on this freeway. That meant that a normal drive of maybe thirty minutes could take well over an hour. I spent the better (or actually the worst) part of that week on the freeway! Not fun. But the smiles were mine and theirs as we discovered a new school and new people. I’m signed up for PTA and to help in the classrooms. The boys love going to school and now they ride the bus to and from. Lots of smiles.
I am now taking care of all of them while Tina works. She doesn’t have her child care set up yet so I am up in Vancouver all the time now. I think I have slept at home in my bed about five nights out of the last month. Maya is full of smiles. She has really gotten attached to me. This week she discovered the boys’ race track and set it up to play with. She also loves going in the backyard to discover things like plants and flowers and bugs!
Maya even discovered, painfully, that you should not put a car with the wheels moving on top of your head!
Maya loves her kitty cats and she is very good with them
This week my smiles are mostly all related to the grandchildren and to the fact that this new life and location they’ve embarked on is really good for all of them. The kinks will be smoothed soon and I think it will be another couple of weeks before I stop coming here every day and go back home to resume my new routine.
What made YOU smile this week? Tell us in a post and link to Trent’s blog above!
Wasted Days And Wasted Nights 
The driving sounds like a nightmare. Glad that’s over! Sounds like some very good new beginnings. Nice to see you posting again! Thanks for joining 🙂
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Basically, it sounds like a good time. As always, I admire your ability to look at the positive side of things. I’m sure that it is heart wrenching to have such close family move so far. But on the other hand, it’s wonderful to know that your health is good enough for you to serve the family’s needs with so much work. Smiling along with you and sending you all, grandma, mom and children my best wishes. It really is a blessing to hear from you again and how nice to hear your voice through a smile.
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Thank you! I’m really hoping that I’ll be able to get back to blogging and writing and keeping in touch with people!
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Hi Corina. I don’t think we’ve met, but I enjoyed your smile-post. That photo of the toy with someone’s hair all tied around the axle certainly made me smile because it reminded me of a toy air plane I had as a young boy. The bright blue plane had a bright yellow, two blade propeller that was battery powered. Very cool! But one day my younger sister was grousing about her hair and I offered to trim it for her, like mom would. She agreed and you could finish this story yourself. When my sister began screaming in pain, our mom came running and was beside herself with what we’d done. She had to cut my sister’s hair to free the propeller and the whole episode left my sister with a hair crater that was too deep for a short haircut to hide. HAHAHAHAH great memories! Thanks for triggering a great smile and laugh.
Feel free to stop by any time to my story blog where I collect such things. You will find another adventure with me and my sister in a story titled “The Indoor Tsunami Adventure.” If you are charmed by such misadventures, this will leave you laughing. Or, here’s the direct link: garyawilsonstories.wordpress.com/grammar-school/the-indoor-tsunami-adventure/
Thanks again for the smile. It was fun to read.
Gary
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