Packed and Ready to Go!

Very uncharacteristically for me - I am ready to go!  We are leaving til tomorrow morning, but my suitcase is packed, complete with toothbrush!  I have no idea what happened to me, but it is such a nice feeling to know I don't have to have a last night before we go panic!

Lucky too, since Mom wants to take us out to dinner and Whitney needs a babysitter tonight!  I am fairly certain we can squeeze both things in too.  The dinner was not a surprise and we had hoped Whitney could join us, but she has a new manager who seems not to understand that Whitney is a single parent and cannot chop and change her work schedule in the middle of the week.  The manager even suggested using "her parents" to take care of Corbyn!  Call me old fashioned, but being taken for granted is (marginally) acceptable when it is your own kids doing it, but when one of their employers begins to take us for granted - it is just wrong!  I know Corbyn's other grandma - Jane and her mother - Nan, will step in the gap we are leaving, but I wonder if they know just how big that gap can get sometimes?  I am not impressed with the sound of this new manager and wish this did not happen days before Alan and I leave the country.

I always try to enjoy Corbyn a bit more when he is with us on the rundown to us going away.  It seems a bit selfish when I think about how much my parents missed by us living so far away, but I know in those 2 weeks there will be big changes in Corbyn, in his vocabulary and possibly even his outlook on life.  He is so much fun now, I can't imagine the changes but I will look forward to seeing him when we get back.  Just one example of how funny he can be:  on the way to nursery school yesterday, we were going to get something to eat at Morrison's.  With Whitney's schedule, I have to pick him up one hour before he needs to be at school.  On the way there, I reminded Corbyn that he could not get a magazine (he likes to get the kiddie magazines with toys on them).  I told him he doesn't read them so no point in buying them.  Corbyn indignantly informed me that he DOES read books.  So I had to remind him, yes he reads books, but he does not read magazines.  Then I had to remind myself he is only 2 and we are discussing his reading matter!


"Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said." ~Author Unknown