I had a pretty good time, but there were times when all that traveling was kind of hard to do. My husband swears that we will never make such a long driving trip again because some of the time our daughter behaved so horribly and he was often the one who removed her from situations before she completely lost it in a melt down so I could have a few more minutes to finish eating or seeing my father, who is in a nursing home, or whatever I needed to finish. We both do this for one another, but I am the person who does it more often when we are close to home, and I am usually the more hands-on parent of the two of us.
Also he did almost all the driving and all the interstates and highways from Kansas to Colorado were closed because of snow and ice, so he drove north to Nebraska and we drove home on secondary roads, which were also covered with ice and snow but were not closed. We were in a Toyota 4-Runner which has huge tires with aggressive treads and which he put into four wheel drive. He is really good at driving in snow and ice and also with navigation, so we were not stranded in some little hotel in Kansas, like so many of the other travelers were and we added only fifty miles to our trip.
I am really glad that we got to see so many relatives because this may have been our last chance to see some of them. My dad doesn't look very well to me, but now he has new clothes and personal items with his name written in all of them, so hopefully he won't lose them in the laundry or whatever. Nursing homes often lose people's things in the laundry or other places. Therefore, my dad had very few socks even though I had sent him several pairs, so I did not bring socks with me, but I found some along with a few other things he needed at a nearby store. It's a nice nursing home, but it is so sad to see a relative in a place like that. My brother who lives near him refuses to go see him because our dad hit his son while he was staying with them after recovering from surgery some time ago. He did lots of other things that bothered my brother, that my brother just overlooked; however when my brother saw him hit his son, he lost it, threw my dad out and told him it was time for him to go home, so there were hard feelings on both sides. It's too bad.
"Is she gone yet?"