Green Acres Is The Place To Be...LOST

Green acres is the place for me.
Farm livin' is the life for me.
Land spreadin' out so far and wide.
Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside

New York is where I'd rather stay.
I get allergic smelling hay.
I just adore a penthouse view.
Dah-ling I love you but give me Park Avenue....The chores.
...The stores.
...Fresh air.
...Times SquareYou are my wife.
Good bye, city life.
Green Acres we are there.

Did you ever have the words to a song just pop into your head for no reason. Well the song from the TV show Green Acres, came to mind today for me. I felt like I was lost in some sort of crazy sitcom and couldn't find my way out of it. I drove today for what seemed like hours out into the country to visit with two Aunts of mine. When I say out in the country I mean WAY out, or at lest it seemed that way at the time. The day started off normal enough..Well as normal as things ever are for my family....Here's the story.

My mom is one of ten kids, seven sisters and two brothers. She is somewhere in the middle age wise. The youngest of her sisters lives in Richmond. We don't see her often, but she (Aunt J....) found out recently that she has cancer. She is the second of my mom's sisters in the last few years to get cancer (also one of her older sisters had cancer many many years ago, but they got all hers and it never came back). Anyway when Aunt G... found out Aunt J had cancer, she came up from South Carolina for a visit. Since my mom lives in Va. Beach they all wanted to get together for a day. Since Aunt J..doesn't feel well it seemed logical that my mom go up there for the visit. I offered to take her up for the day. It is only a bout an hour and a half to two hours from my house..Just a nice day trip. Ok simple enough you 'd think..Yea right! If you have read this blog for any time at all you know nothing I do or touch is ever simple. First of all I told my mom that she needed to come stay the night last night so that we didn't have to back track an extra hour this morning. My sister Michelle (A little bit of this a little bit of that.) lives with mom, so of course she wanted to come to. Which is great, She is like me, she never gets away, so it was a good reason to get out of town for the day. Only problem was she really needed to study for a test she has coming up on Monday. So mom and her debated back and forth and back and forth...Go or stay,go or stay. Mom really wanted to come. Michelle really wanted to come, but they were driving each other (and ME) nuts trying to do the best thing for everyone. Finally last night about midnight my husband and I drove to there house and got them and drove them back here where they stayed at my daughters house for the night .(she went next door to her dads, since he has the only spare bedroom) My daughter and grandson wanted to come today too, so about 7 this morning the five of us (counting the baby) crammed into my car and off we went. I had map quested the driving directions and they sounded simple enough, we made all the right turns and bi-passed the city limits with out a hitch. Finally we were down to the last 20 miles. Turn left here, go to this road, turn right..go down a mile turn left..go down to XXX road and turn right..Your there...simple huh...NO!! Not only did the road we were looking for not exist the further we drove the further into the country we seem to be getting. City roads had turned into two lane country roads and we were getting no where fast. Finally we decided we had missed the road we were looking for and pulled into a dirt road to turn around. About time we turned in, my daughter realized my grandson needed a diaper change. I told her just lay him on the grass (pointing to a clearing) and change him. Well much to my surprise, my 70 year old mother jumps out of the car and announces. I HAVE TO PEE...What she did next was so funny I am still laughing about it. She walks to the edge of the road, near a mail box and hikes down her pants and pees. Michelle and I almost died. Not only were we shocked, we laughed so hard we both almosted peed our pants. I could not believe what I was seeing. Here is my daughter with a half naked 15 month old changing a diaper and mom peeing..Oh my God..I wish I had the camera out at that point. It would have made top spot on this blog. I was just Thankful no cars came by. Anyway after a couple of more wrong turns..Thanks Map Quest...(NEVER USE MAP QUEST...IT SUCKS) we managed to find the house.

We had a nice visit. I love the yard. It was huge and backed up to some lovely woods. I went and sat awhile on a bench under a tree, thinking how I wish I had a place like that to go to on full moon nights. There was even a little clearning which would have been great for a ritual. They also had a pool which Michelle, my daughter and gradnson swam in for awhile. I had planned to get in but my Aunt G....was busy showing me her knitting and by the time we talked awhile and I saw it lunch was ready and the swim was over...Oh well maybe next time. We had an awesome pork roast with veggies. Before we knew it, it was time to leave, and we got better directions out so we got home with out a problem. I by passed my exit and took mom and Michelle home, stayed there for awhlle and made it back here about 8.Thankfully my ex had called and offered to cook supper and my husband had helped me clean house last night, so all I had to do was come in and sit down. I'm exhausted and have to work all week. My next day off won't be until Friday. All my laundry is dirty, and that will need to be done tomorrow night. At lest my daughter is off tonight so I don't have my grandson, that means I can sleep till the last minute tomorrow and my bed is calling me now. I am posting some photos from today...