The beginning of my Christmas trip to see my Grandma was like a bad Christmas movie. You know the ones where everything goes wrong? My mom and I traveled from Kansas City to Cleveland. Our first flight flew into Chicago and was an hour late. Then my mom and I rush to, what felt like, the other side of the airport. Luckily our connecting flight was also late, otherwise we would have missed it. Then when we got on the connecting flight and sat in the airplane for an hour waiting for them to de-ice the wings. We finally got to Cleveland 2 1/2 hours after we were supposed to get there. Still not too bad, right? We met my great Aunt and Uncle at the airport (you always feel guilty when the older people have to wait in the airport for you for two hours). Then we went to get our luggage and it wasn't there. Now I could understand us not getting the luggage if our flight had left when it was supposed to, but we sat on at the gate for an hour? What were those people doing?
So after a little dinner my mom and I shopped at Target for pjs and other items.
Then, we went and stayed at Grandma's house with no luggage and no Grandma. (She's been in a nursing home since the day after Thanksgiving). We were supposed to be able to see here the night we arrived, but we didn't get to my grandma's hometown until after her "bedtime." It was a little depressing to lay in the quiet house.
That's where the Christmas movie ended. Our luggage arrived the next day at 6 pm. And it was ours. Sorry, no funny stories of opening the luggage to find someone else's things like in Meet the Parents.
I will say that it was a harsh reality to see my grandma in the state that she is. I realized how lucky I am to be able to run and walk and just generally move. There were so many people including my grandma who had lost a lot of their mobility. What makes it hard is my grandma is there mentally so she's so frustarted all the time about how her body won't work. I don't want to ever take my body for granted again.
2 comments:
Boo to the luggage issues!!! At least you got some new pjs out of the deal.
I'm sorry to hear about your grandma. I just bet she's so frustrated because she knows she wants to do things...that darned body is just getting in the way! Makes us look at working out or just walking around in a different light.
It is so hard to watch someone you love age. It is so unfair and there is no way around that fact. I just went through that exact same visit with my Grandpa last summer it is hard to handle. I know that no mater how hard it was for you to see her I am 100% sure she was happy to see you and your mom and it probably made her Christmas.
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