We are coming to the end of our 3rd annual trip to the West Coast to get away from the midwest winter for a couple of months. We are going to miss so many things - wearing shorts in January, the cool mornings and evenings, the crystal blue skies against the mountain ridges, going to the race track on Thursdays (free for seniors!), taking long walks at the arboretum, patio dining and most importantly, spending time with our daughter, her husband and our granddaughters.
One of the things we enjoy most is picking up Love Monster and Smirker from their after school programs and bringing them back to our “cottage” for after school snacks.
By the time they get to the cottage, you would have thought that their mother didn’t feed them breakfast or pack a lunch. (FYI - Their mother is so not that kind of mother and their lunch boxes are empty.) And yet...the cottage becomes an after school smorgasbord or all-you-can-eat buffet! Let’s see...today it was popcorn, lemonade with sparkling water, of course (hope this doesn’t lead to a hankering for champagne), followed by bagels with cream cheese (2) and yogurt. Keep in mind dinner is just 90 minutes away. But then again we are their visiting Napa and Nama. Maybe I’ll run out for In N Out Burgers to top off their pre-dinner meal!
As we make our way over to their Mom’s apartment FOR DINNER, Smirker says “I love going to the Snack Shop”. She means the cottage but maybe we should just go with that. I kinda like it.
We will miss afternoons at the Snack Shop with Love Monster and Smirker. And everyone and everything else about this home away from home while the snow flies and thermometer drops back in the midwest.
But then Spiderman and Ball Boy are waiting for us to return. We can’t wait. And I guess snow-shoeing could be fun. Couldn't it?
