Friday, July 24, 2009

Take my way, it's the highway, that's the best

Get your kicks on Route 66. Well, it winds from Chicago to L.A. more than 2,000 miles all the way. ~ Chuck Berry "Route 66"

Exactly one week from today we will be packing our things for summer vacation. I already have my suitcase out and when I think of those essential things I throw them in, abathing suit aFrisbee acamera akites atanning oil Well, you get the point. Those things that you remember when you are already 90 miles away from your house that you meant to pack but you forgot. I always set my suitcase out a week before and I have never forgotten a thing. There is one thing for sure I have to have, my camera. My family has pretty much given up taking pictures because they know I will take 1,000 good ones. I don't know what I would do if I couldn't document all the memories we've made together. We're going to eat at Paula Dean's restaurant, what if she comes to visit, if I didn't have my camera, no one would ever believe us! I am not banking on seeing her but if we did, I would definitely have a picture!

Before we go, I have to say goodbye to my baby. Since Chad's parents lost their baby "Picasso" I think I hold Jack a little closer. Maybe because he calls me mommy now, he's 5 years old, he has been ours since he hatched and now he can say "momma." It would break my heart if something ever happened to Jack. He's supposed to live 80-100 years so maybe that means he will outlive me. It makes me feel better than he has a great babysitter, his rightful "mommy" Vicki. She's the one who fed him and weened him until he was 9 months old. He loves to go over there because there are so many other birdys. I can't imagine him staying anywhere else.

In one week we will "motor west" or motor east really. Chuck Berry says "motor west." Well, we will motor south and then east to Hilton Head Island to relax and play in the ocean God created for us. We usually vacation in late June so going in August has made the summer really fly by for me. I don't know if we will make it to the beach next year because we have so many trips lined up. In March we're going to Texas for my uncle Andy's wedding, and in April we're going to Las Vegas with my mom and dad. We might be broke by the time beach time rolls around. Oh well, I will take 1,000 pictures for you all to see and I will make a scrapbook too so we can look back and remember when we saw Paula Dean in person, haha. I let you know if that happens. : )

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