Last weekend Holly's nephews Christopher and Thomas visited us from Kansas City. They flew into Charlotte, where Holly met them and drove up to Asheville for the long w-e. I feel pretty confident in saying that I haven't spent that much time with 2 adolescent boys since, well, I was an adolescent myself. And suffice to say that much has changed in that time period (cellphones, computers, and technology in general) while other things are still the same (girls, braces, and pizza). I don't think we were as fun for the boys as they were to us. For example, Thomas taught us how to send and receive text messages (I swear I am not making this up). Amazingly, he displayed a comfort and ease with everything we threw at him while managing to straddle the boy's world of computer games and 1 # jaw breakers. He was completely comfortable kayaking in the river, paddling on the French Broad rapids in a ducky, and hiking with 2 middle aged women. Apparently we have a black widow spider that lives on our hillside which he found while playing outside (who knew?). Christopher treated Holly to a flute concert (both boys brought their instruments to practice dutifully as their mother requested) and was more talkative than when he visited 2 yrs ago. I am not sure we were very helpful regarding his question about how to attract the interest of girls. Still I was a bit amazed by their knowledge-the weed overtaking my garden is called carpetweed, black widow spiders have one of the strongest webs of any spiders, and origami cranes make good thank you notes. They were really a delight to have visit.
Tomorrow Holly and I leave for Folly Beach to spend a week in SC with my family. It is also my birthday-I'll be 47. What a treat to see another birthday even healthy again. I purposely put off my next bone marrow biopsy until AFTER this trip just in case I get bad news. I didn't want anything to interfere with our vacation week. This way, we can behave like anyone else on vacation-carefree and easy.
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