Surprise!

Normally, I am not one for surprises. I suspect that stems from my control freakishness. Anyway, Sunday night my cousin calls me from her cell phone. The conversation went a little bit like this - Oh - I should mention my dear kin live in Rockford, Illinois. It's a good five hours from here so I was unsuspecting.

Kim - "What are you up to?"

Me - "Nothing really - just looking at seven baskets of laundry I haven't put away yet. Why? What are you doing?"

Kim - "Oh - we are taking Hannah on a college visit to Ohio and we are driving through Fort Wayne. We really didn't realize we would be driving so close to you guys."

Now - this should just prove to all of you that my navigational skills are inherited - apparently from my father's side. I wouldn't have really paid attention to that kind of thing either. That's what is so funny.

I was able to convice them to stop and stay here for the night and the hotel was good enough to cancel their reservations. The kids love Hannah (and the other two who had to stay home and go to school - sorry Daniel and Olivia - next time for sure) so this was a great surprise! Now we are all hoping Hannah's college ends up even remotely close to us so we can go visit!