The Status Quo

Coffee is brewing, cat is asleep on my bed, Nick just got home from school and has gone to play at Jesse's. He was supposed to have a music lesson tonight, but he has such a cough it is impossible to play. So I gave him a reprieve. I called Scott last night and talked to him for about an hour. They plan to go to Manila in June for three weeks. I guess Marisol's sisters (4 of them) are eager to see the baby, and since they are not able to obtain travel-to-the-US Visa's, it wouldn't be possible for them all to see the baby unless Scott and all of his family travel to the Philippines instead. They are also going to plan a trip here for Ana's Graduation the end of May, so they are going to be busy this summer. Our trip to California is not put together yet, because I need Ana to find out if she can get the time off of her job to go. If she doesn't go with us, it will change my plans a bit. Tom may go with us instead. He has never gone back to California since moving here. This would be his first time back. And he doesn't enjoy visiting with my 92 year old Mother, so I don't know what I will do with him for the week that I spend with her. They have DIFFERENT political views, and of course they are both very opinionated. So they fight. It isn't pleasant to travel 3000 miles to fight. Or to watch someone else fight. So I always make him promise when he is near my Mom to pretend he doesn't hear, which isn't all that hard for him to do, since he is practically deaf. Last years trip was fun, the kids and I spent just a few days at each stop and we stayed in Hotel's most of the time. Ana and Alex went clothes shopping in San Francisco, while Nick and I sat on a park bench and ate ice cream. We had fabulous, expensive dinners in quaint little restaurants and for the kids who basically hadn't been much of anywhere, it was a dream come true. But it was a very expensive vacation and I am not sure I want to spend that much money this year doing the same thing. Well I have lots of time to think about it yet, although the way time "marches on" I have to begin making plans in the not to distant future. If you wait until the last minute things don't work out so well.