Better Than a Visit from Santa

Thanks, guys, for your concern over my last post. I appreciate it. I have recently found reason to need to let myself grieve a little, and because I’d rather not dwell on things too long, I will just leave it at this: Thank you for your concern, and I really will be fine. Blake has been helping me and we're getting through it. We’ve just come to a small hill that we’re learning how to climb over. We’ll get to that other side soon enough.

But to speak of happier things: My dad is coming to visit us! He arrives in Muncie today and we’ll get to visit with him for a good portion of the weekend. We’re very excited. Because we live so far away from both of our families, it’s always a rare treat to get visitors out this way.

Unfortunately, whenever we do, the weather likes to act up. Last year my mom and brother stopped over for a day on their way home from my cousin’s wedding. They happened to land in Muncie on two of the coldest days of the year, so while we showed them around town, we also got to introduce them ice and temperatures of 15 below zero.

The weather this year’s been really quite lovely: warm and mostly sunny for the past week or two. Until yesterday’s storm blew in and left us soaking wet and under water. Word on the street is that by tomorrow we might be under snow.

But at least it won’t be 15 below.

We’ve been trying to think up fun things to take my dad around to. The newspaper told me that tonight and tomorrow is the annual Christmas Enchanted Luminaria Walk at the old Ball Brother homes at Minnetrista. And I guess over Thanksgiving the Walkway of Lights opened up in Marion along the Mississinewa River. We went to this last year and were pretty impressed. Also, there’s the possibility of visiting the Academy of Model Aeronautics museum on the south side of town. AMA is based here in Muncie, and people gather from all over the country to fly their model airplanes on their fields. My dad has liked airplanes since he was little growing up as the son of an Air Force father, and even once, when I was little, he built himself a pretty neat model airplane. So it would seem that a museum full of classic model airplanes would be interesting to him. Or, if we’re up to it, we can drive down to Indianapolis where there is always plenty to see and do.

Anyway, a good, though possibly snowy and cold, weekend is in the forecast. I for one am greatly looking forward to it.