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I Can't Drive 55!

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The other day, I was stuck behind someone driving SO SLOW. They weren't even close to the speed limit! As usual, we were in a rush to get to a destination-I-can-no-longer-remember. I caught myself riding his bumper until saw their white hair. I reprimanded myself that this could be my grandparents who always were so calm about going places and so pleasant about taking trips. They went on trips where you actually enjoy the drive and then go back home! (I am only a little tongue in cheek when I say, I can't imagine getting in the car if I didn't have a place we were expected to be at the end!)

How, all those years, did my grandparents drive everywhere so slowly?

When I think back to all of my visits to their house, I cannot remember one time we were rushing anywhere. We always got ready for church with plenty of time to spare. If we were driving to my great-grandparents' home for a visit, we drove the 30+ miles slowly - it felt like we would never get there. We would stop at the Amish homes to purchase vegetables. We would look out the windows at the beautiful farmland that made me want to grow up and marry a farmer. Sometimes, we would detour to McDonalds where they "spoiled" us with Happy Meals. (No, Happy Meals were not a normal meal on those nights Mom didn't have time to cook.) Once we arrived at my great-grandparents' home, we always had more than enough time to enjoy a long, leisurely visit and to make the slow trip back to their home. Back at their house, we would wash our hair and sit outside popping green beans until our hair dried. It was pleasantly slow to do life on grandparent time.

Seems like the trip was part of the experience back then. Now, the destination is the good part and the travel is only a necessary evil. We have DVDs, Ipods, Nintendos, books, and endless snacks to keep us from looking out the windows or even at each other. We seem to think that maybe if we bring enough things to occupy us, the trip will fly by. Unfortunately, our lives also seem to be flying by and far too much of that time is spent on the run.

Soon, I will fill you guys in on how our lives are going, but right now I have to get off the computer, and hurry out the door....


to throw a football with my son in the yard. We are going on grandparent time around here.


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