Repost from 2007
Yesterday I called home to confirm to my parents our flight information. My little nieces and nephew were there. I had already bought gifts to bring for them, but I thought I'd ask them anyway what they might like me to bring for them.
Chelsea shook her head, "Mom, why did you ask them what they wanted? When are you going to find the time to buy these things. What if you don't find what they want? Mom, you do remember we leave tomorrow?"
My daughter thinks before she acts. I've said many times before, that she should have been the Mom and I the kid.
My niece Gina (8)
simply asked for a fancy doll to put on her bedroom shelf.
"As in breakable?" I asked. I love carry-ons. Especially fragile, odd-shaped ones.
Gina told me that Marie (8) wasn't there to say what she wanted.
I asked her if she had any ideas. Gina offered, "Sure I do, Clothes! Something sweet and pink. But not fou fou Aunt CoCo."
"Pink and not fou fou? Pink and yet not girly?" I asked nervously.
"Yeah pink and pretty, but not girly." I could see her pink cheeks glowing, "Oh that is easy like a pink tee-shirt?"
Gina replied, "Oh no that is boring."
I am doomed.
Next came May-May (6),
she told me she wanted a horse.
"A HORSE! How am I going to stuff a real horse in my suitcase?" She reassured me, "Silly Aunt CoCo. It doesn't have to be a real horse. Just soft and blue."
"Blue?"
"No, soft and blue."
George (4) my Godchild, asked for Spider-Man. "Hum. That is going to be a challenge. Tell me if I can't find Spider-Man, will Superman, or Snoopy, or Mickey Mouse do the job?"
"No. Um not really," he replied. "I like Spider-Man."
Hum, Chelsea was right.
Molly (4) thought the longest. After a while, she said,
"I cannot make up my mind. I'm going to tell you two things and you can surprise me. I'd like a seashell and Jesus."
Oh God, help me.
We leave today.
…………………..
Every time I prepare to return to Willows
I recall this memory.
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