Because innumerable circumstances amazingly fell into place, I was able to make a whirlwind trip to North Dakota over the weekend. YaYa, a calm solo traveler, came with me to visit my new nephew, Connor Aesoph. I am not only head over heals in love with my newest nephew, but I am also infatuated with his middle name. I just want to call him Little Aesoph. What a GREAT name. It’s a name that belongs to his great grandfather. Dr. Peds loves the name too. My brother and sister-in-law are lucky that we hadn’t come across that name, because we SO wold have stolen it! We’re crooks like that.
C. Aesoph was wonderful. He was teensy and delicate and had all those old man faces that newborns can pull off so wonderfully. Once again I was faced with the dilemma of holding him constantly or managing to capture some images of him that I could take home with me and gaze at.
While I was at my brother’s house on Sunday afternoon I got to meet up with my terrific cousin who lives a few houses down the street. I loved being able to see her. I even shared the baby with her. Some. Mostly only so that I could take the pictures!
I was so busy holding the baby that I forgot to let YaYa hold the baby. She was a bit disgusted about driving 20 hours and not even getting to hold him. Oops.
In the car we listed to Anne of Green Gables unabridged. It passed ten hours of the drive so nicely. What an awesome book. I read it several times over when I was in fifth and sixth and seventh grade and I just loved it. And its STILL a good book even though I’m 35. It still made me tear up at the last part. YaYa really liked it too. We also listened to Moxy Maxwell, several podcasts of the “News from Lake Wobegon” that had recently been broadcast on A Prairie Home Companion and we relistened to Mitch and Amy by Beverly Cleary, which I have read and heard so many times in the past few years, but its a book that all the kidlets really like, and they always seem to pick the audio book on trips. Thank goodness for audio books.
While I was in Bismarck I also got to go to church at Grace Lutheran Brethren, which is the church that always makes me feel like I’m cozy and at home. I hadn’t been able to be back there for several years, and it was so great.
Lucky me! I also got to visit the Penns and have supper with them before YaYa and I left Bismarck. They had been traveling and so we didn’t know if we’d be able to meet up, but it all worked out. I was so busy visiting I didn’t take any pictures!
I also got to stop TWICE in VAlley City to hold Baby Katherine and giggle at Alex. No pictures of that either! I think people hand me babies on purpose so that I’ll forget about my camera! It was so good to see them, and we even sneaked in a lunch date on our way back home.
My mom made me the most delicious peach pie. No one makes pie like my mom. I can barely restrain myself from sitting down and eating the whole thing. The only thing that saves me is the knowledge that if I ration it I will experience the taste of peach pie more frequently.
Because my grandmother is a night owl, I could slip in two visits with her before I drifted off to slumber each night I was staying at my parents’ house. I always love visiting her, and so do the kidlets. YaYa had been asking and asking to see Great Grandma Jan for weeks upon weeks, and visiting her and showing great grandma some artwork was the highlight of her trip.
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One Comment
Siri
My kids asked where your camera was!! 🙂 It was so fun to see you, even if so quick! Already thinking about a visit to Duluth this summer!