Big Family Vacation 2025, Day -3

Here's the wine rack in the 2019-renovated kitchen of our 1927 home, decorated with an early birthday card my lifelong BFF sent. Her granddaughter picked it out, having never met me, and it has musical notes on it!!! I'm seventeen days from turning 75 years of age. I've spent the past nineteen months planning this trip, a terrific adventure for my sons, myself, and our people, as they say on "Grey's Anatomy." The boys' father and I divorced when they were around ages 8 and 6. Now they are ages 52 and 50. We three have not take a "family" vacation since they were teenagers. If I spend too long thinking about this upcoming trip, my eyes fill with tears. These two men have become wonderful adults: ethical, loving, hard-working. I am very lucky to be their mom. I'm going to enjoy this trip so very much. For this trip, rather than be anxious about leaving my old house empty, I've asked a recent YSU graduate, a theatre major whom I accompanie...