Gifts Our Mountain Trip Gave Us
-I discovered a lot of abilities I didn't know I had: driving four kids up there, taking field trips, handling toads,carrying kids to the car in ankle-deep pounding rain, driving the dark mountain roads at night.
-staying up late with just my sis--laughing about our kids, our husbands, and our kooky family.
-our kids putting on swim caps and flippers to venture to the deep end, Becky and I scrambling for the cameras.
-late night calls from Geoff reminiscent of Pittsburgh circa 1997.
-observing cousin-play and over-hearing Larry, "It's Dodge Ball. You're gonna be kinda mean."
-painting my neices nails to look like soccer balls for the soccer-themed birthday party.
-eating soccer-ball cookie cake
-my neices and nephews who are becoming adolescents who still call me Aunt Mimi and kiss me on the lips like they did when they were little
-seeing our oldest neice's engagement ring in person
-seeing our kids manage the short hike to the pool and back
-eavesdropping on the kids' Bible quizzes with Mymom, "Do we count Judas as a disciple? Was Jesus' father Joseph or God?"
-for Manny: sometimes swimming without a life jacket, holding his own in a game of dodgeball with cousins, singing a Miley Cyrus song for Karaoke hour, perfecting his lip-sync routine, and at the end of a long day, the joys of taking a sauna.
-for Benicio:the gift of fire; magnifying glass+dry dead leaf, how to find shoes that are in your size at an outlet; he found Manny his school shoes by knowing his size and knowing what he'd like, playing an evening-long game of hide n' go seek wherein you could be found mischievously sharing gum in afore-mentioned sauna.
-for Clara: what she calls back-skipping (skipping backwards), pillow-floating independently in her life jacket, the game sharks and minnows, playing with the big cousins until her eyelids were so heavy that her eyes were crossing.
-for Callio: running wild and free on the sports field while her cousins and siblings chase her, on the pool steps and gripping the bannister with both hands and laying your head back and dipping just the very tip of her hair into the water, eating breakfast at a table for two with Andre and then playing for 45 minutes a game involving a purse full of monkeys and yarn and both of them being kitty cats, doing magic tricks with Big Dad.
-And when we arrived back home, the squeals and running into Geoff's arms was immense.
-staying up late with just my sis--laughing about our kids, our husbands, and our kooky family.
-our kids putting on swim caps and flippers to venture to the deep end, Becky and I scrambling for the cameras.
-late night calls from Geoff reminiscent of Pittsburgh circa 1997.
-observing cousin-play and over-hearing Larry, "It's Dodge Ball. You're gonna be kinda mean."
-painting my neices nails to look like soccer balls for the soccer-themed birthday party.
-eating soccer-ball cookie cake
-my neices and nephews who are becoming adolescents who still call me Aunt Mimi and kiss me on the lips like they did when they were little
-seeing our oldest neice's engagement ring in person
-seeing our kids manage the short hike to the pool and back
-eavesdropping on the kids' Bible quizzes with Mymom, "Do we count Judas as a disciple? Was Jesus' father Joseph or God?"
-for Manny: sometimes swimming without a life jacket, holding his own in a game of dodgeball with cousins, singing a Miley Cyrus song for Karaoke hour, perfecting his lip-sync routine, and at the end of a long day, the joys of taking a sauna.
-for Benicio:the gift of fire; magnifying glass+dry dead leaf, how to find shoes that are in your size at an outlet; he found Manny his school shoes by knowing his size and knowing what he'd like, playing an evening-long game of hide n' go seek wherein you could be found mischievously sharing gum in afore-mentioned sauna.
-for Clara: what she calls back-skipping (skipping backwards), pillow-floating independently in her life jacket, the game sharks and minnows, playing with the big cousins until her eyelids were so heavy that her eyes were crossing.
-for Callio: running wild and free on the sports field while her cousins and siblings chase her, on the pool steps and gripping the bannister with both hands and laying your head back and dipping just the very tip of her hair into the water, eating breakfast at a table for two with Andre and then playing for 45 minutes a game involving a purse full of monkeys and yarn and both of them being kitty cats, doing magic tricks with Big Dad.
-And when we arrived back home, the squeals and running into Geoff's arms was immense.
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