Onward

You’ll be happy to know (so that I’ll stop talking about it for more than five minutes) that the ADA transportation form is complete and has been submitted. Now, it’s all in the hands of a higher authority (i.e.: the bus company.)

Before we go onto the next challenge, we’re going to get ready to take an abbreviated family vacation. Helaina has taken a couple of days off from work, and Rachael is able to come home for a few days(!). So, in some fashion or another, we’re going to drive to Rhode Island and visit Jake (and yes, he knows about it.)

This will be the first vacation the family has been able to take together since the last, slightly less abbreviated vacation, five years ago (I looked it up. This is a real “five years ago,” not my standard answer of “five years ago”- which could mean any time within the last twenty-five years or so.)

As for our plans, I don’t know much beyond the fact that we’re driving to Rhode Island. I’m not sure whether we’ll all be driving down in the same car or not, or whether Helaina and Rachael will drive separately - maybe a day or two later. If that’s the case, hopefully it won’t be much later than that because if things go as planned (even though there’s no reason to expect that they will), we will be heading back home on Day Three - and it would be nice to do more than just pass them on the highway.

I don’t know what we’re going to do once we get there, either. Jake has talked about going to Point Judith - a place he likes to go to sit and read and relax - and collect rocks. I’ve looked into mini-golf places in the area, so that Sam will hopefully have enough fun that he’ll want to go back. But beyond that, we’ll have to figure it out - which to me, is the best kind of vacation - the kind where every minute isn’t pre-planned and overly scheduled.

So, we’ll see. It’ll be good to get away for a little bit, and it will be better still, to be able to spend a little bit of time together - no matter what we end up doing.

In the meantime, I need to shift gears and think about what to pack…