Day 107: Visit

I finally made it up to see mom and dad today. I brought both mom's birthday cards and dad's father's day cards. It's been too long. I'm glad my clients didn't go into labor and I was able to make it up. The traffic was FANTASTIC. I should always travel on the 4th of July. I don't think I've ever had such good traffic up and back.

Mom and dad and I chatted for a while and then we went to the casino for lunch. It was a great lunch and we had a really fun time. It was fun to watch dad play Keno again. It took me back to being a kid and getting excited to see the numbers pop up when we were in Reno. :-)

After we got back to the house, we chatted a little more and then I headed back. As I was leaving mom gave me a hug like I haven't had in a very long time. It was one of those hugs only a mom could give. When we pulled away, she had tears in her eyes. I think I'll remember that hug for the rest of my life. There was a lot said in that hug, although no words were exchanged.

Tonight I made my nightly phone call and mom and dad repeated how much they enjoyed having me up. I am definitely going to have to make a more concerted effort to get up there more often. It was good for all of us.

On a side note, for those of you reading this, I'd really love to arrange a work party to clean up mom and dad's yard. If anyone is interested in helping out, please let me know. I've never been much of a yard person, but their yard needs raking (as their front tree apparently thought it was fall) and they need some weeding and pruning of bushes. They didn't say anything, but I know it bothers them and it would make them happy to not have to look at it. My plan is to get up there again and start working on it myself, but a work party would be so much more fun. :-) And faster!

So, the sun is getting closer and closer to setting and I live on Indian Reservation land so there should be a lot of activity tonight. As long as nothing sets my house on fire, I guess I'll survive (man, I sound really old! LOL!). Hopefully the cats and I will get some sleep and tomorrow all of my boys will be coming home. I'm looking forward to that.

Day 107 was a good one. And one I'll hold with me forever. :-)