Tuesday’s Path – May 17, 2011

By Chrissy the Hyphenated

Lil Buzz is on a Great Adventure and I’ve decided to indulge myself and share it with all y’all on a (maybe) daily basis. (Depends how cute and non-identifying the pics Mama Buzz sends me from her phone are LOL.)

Mama and Lil Buzz are spending the next MONTH tooling around, visiting extended family near and far! Daddy Buzz has to stay home and defend the country, which is a drag since we’d all love a visit and he is definitely not thrilled about the home alone thing. But such are the unheralded and numerous sacrifices that come with military duty.

Lil Buzz is a GREAT traveler … and an old hand at the airports and hotels thing. He drove cross country when he was just a few months old and flew to see all of us last summer when a clan VIP was getting hitched.  (He was even in the wedding, riding down the aisle on Mama Buzz the Bride’s Mate’s hip!)  But of course, he wasn’t a Big Boy who could explore back then.

Left: “Is that our flight, Mama?”

Right: Checking out hotel bathroom

The Buzzers’ first stop was at the home of the maternal great grands, the very house where Dearest himself grew up. This makes a 3d generation of children to make its mark on these well worn stairs at the old manse.

32 years ago, I made my own mark when I took a rather tumultuous trip DOWN these stairs, followed by ER, x-rays, a lesson on how to Ace bandage a bad sprain, a trip to the shoe store to buy something with rubber soles and a swing past the Good Will bucket to drop off the brand spanking new shoes, worn only once down a flight of stairs (mostly on back end) which were hopefully purchased by someone with more grace than moi. Funny thing … I still have the rubber soled shoes. Loved them so much, when the soles wore out, I got them resoled cuz the tops were still good. LOL