Life is full and that is good, but it means that it’s difficult to remember what happened a few days ago, much less a few weeks ago, and THAT means that if I don’t make time to blog about something right away, it just gets lost.
My trip to see Katie was awesomely wonderful, and I think I was working on writing about our Sunday, but I don’t know if I will ever complete that post. = ( Therefore, just for the record, I will copy here my journal’s full list from our time together. Then, if the details of Sunday and Monday ever get blogged, that will be a bonus.
Dr. Roberts’ logic class
Subway lunch with Josiah
Dr. Spinney’s U.S. history class
yellow schoolhouse
paninis and peach ice cream
Veteran’s Day parade in Manassas
bookstore
Roy Rogers lunch (with nifty drink machine)
Manassas battlefield
salad supper (with homegrown tomatoes)
Bookworm Adventures
church
Ball’s Bluff battlefield
White’s Ferry (both day and night!)
C & O canal
Violette’s lock
Wal-Mart and Target
mac & cheese supper with fresh pineapple
packing and wrapping the shoebox
Andrew Peterson concert
care package to Josiah
Union cemetery
picnic and hike at Algonkian Park
Hail to the Chief
On a tender note, we got up at 4:15 AM to leave at 4:45 AM to drive an hour and-a-half in the rain (it had been beautifully clear and sunny every day I was there) to the airport in Baltimore (which is, amazingly northEAST of Leesburg – how can that be?!??) to check in by 6:30 AM for a 7:30 AM flight, and as we finally approached the airport, I was thinking, “This time with Katie has been so very special. She made every detail wonderful for me. She did this to bless me for my birthday, but I know that she also did it just because she likes me and we enjoy being together. The fact that she would WANT to spend four days with me, for fun, is just precious, and now I’m gonna have to get out of this car at the curb and say goodbye, and how can I possibly communicate to her what’s in my heart?”
Just then, about a mile from the airport, Katie turned to me and said, “What are you thinking?” Sheesh! What a question! So, through tears (hers as well as mine), I told her the above paragraph. We did the unison sniff-and-eye-wipe, and as we pulled up to the curb, I said, “Well, since I already said all that, I won’t have to say it standing out in the cold and rain!” So we just hugged, I walked into the airport, and she drove home for an hour’s nap before going to work.
It was a sweet ending to a special time.