HIGH ANXIETY
OES MOMMY I shoulda gotten your phone number in case I got lost!!!!!!!!!!!!! So if you never hear from me again you'll know I'm caought in the 390 (or is it 360????) loop trying to figure out which exit to get offfffffffffffff )
Please send positive thoughts my way (I'm a TERRIBLE MAP READER ONT TOP OF IT ALL!!!!!!!!!!!) and keep your fingers crossed for good weather!  |
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| You can do it! Fingers, toes, and paws are crossed on our end! |
| Ginny, you can do it! Ask your daughter to read the map while you drive. Remember that anticipation is always much worse than the actual experience. Take deep breaths. Remain calm. Take your cell phone. Let us know when you get back. |
| You can do it Ginny! We're sending positive map reading vibes your way! |
| Ginny,
You can do it!!!  |
| Ginny, You will do fine. Yes you should have given me your phone number and I should have given you mine. I would have met you there.
Rochester is not that big. The airport is easy to get to. Let us know how you did. Godd Luck!~ Deana |
| Rochester is an easy city so you shouldn't have too much trouble.
Just drive slowly in the right hand lane and tell the other drivers where they can go if they don't like it. Good Luck!!!!! Buckle up! |
| Ginny,
You can do it! Safe travel, and clear weather. If all else fails, Tasker can navigate
You will do fine!!!  |
| You'll do fine, stop and ask if you feel lost.
bdx4 |
| Best of luck to you Ginny! I'm sure you're on the road now so I'm sending you positive "never lost" vibes!! |
| I'd suggest you leave a cookie at the airport...for next time you try to go there. If Tasker is anything like Dawnie....he can find a cookie or treat ANYWHERE!! Just get him in the car and say "find the cookie" and the next thing you know you'll be at the airport...lol.
I totally understand your anxiety. My mother was a side road kinda gal. The big city was to be avoided at all costs...btw I grew up in Salt Lake City...well the suburbs. Hope you are enjoying a nice cuppa cocoa after your ordeal. |
I sympathize with you. I don't like driving if I'm not familiar where I'm going.I got lost going to the mall in Harrisburg,Pa. Not a very big place  On the way home trying to find the other mall in Camp Hill I wound up in downtown Harrisburg at the gates of some cemetary.Stopped to ask directions at a gas station and they didn't speak English.
My 21 year old went to Boston. Her boyfriend was here for a week.He came with a friend.My daughter took him back home and is visiting his family for a week and then driving home herself. She's braver then me.She said she's not stopping anywhere on the way home. Sure hope she doesn't drink to much coffee or she'll have to stop. I'm worried I'll say a prayer for you both. I think you'll be fine if your daughters like mine she'll probably tell you which way to go.My kids are better at directions than me. And your a woman not a man you can always stop and Ask for directions. |
| Best of luck Ginny, we know you can do it. |
WHEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm home safe and SOUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was nerve wracking but not bad. My Daughter Sarah was the Co-pilot on the way there and we followed the map quest directions WORD FOR WORD (THANK GOD FOR MAP QUEST). She actually said I did a better job getting her there than her Dad did picking her up  (she said he drives like an old man!!!) HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
I like the leave a cookie idea, shoulda thought of it!!! I even found my own way home. WIthout a copilot and CRYING most of the way  . Sarah is going back to school in Utach and plans to spend the summer there and stay right through til next school year. Unless I can figure a way to get out to see her this summer I may not see her til NEXT CHRISTMAS WHY DO KIDS HAVE TO GROW UP?????? I'm a big old sap!!!!!
Those of you who have little kids, you won't believe how fast the time flies!! Pretty soon you'll be crying on your way home from the airport while they fly off to the rest of their life!!!! |
| Yay, home safe and sound WELL DONE!!!
Yes understand how you feel, mine are 18 and 21 only seems like yesterday they were little kids. |
| If its any consolation, they often come back at least once before they fly the nest completely. |
I'm glad you made it back safe and sound. I know what you mean about kids growing up.It would be nice to be able to just keep them home I think. My daughter is driving back on Sunday and she goes back to college on Monday.Her college is only about 45 minutes away but she lives up there and ususally comes home every two weeks. If she didn't pass her finales she was going to go to Spain with her boyfriend for 6 months. He plays basketball. I love her boyfriend but I'm glad she passed. I prefer her to stay in the U.S. although I'm sure it would have been ok a good experience maybe for her. I try not to influence her to much cause I'm a homebody and a wuss afraid of flying.Did you tell your husband he drives like an old man. Thats funny.  |
herbgirl wrote: I know what .Did you tell your husband he drives like an old man. Thats funny.
No because her Dad is MY EX!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I got as GOOD laugh out of iT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Glad you found your way home |
| Awwww. . .
Glad you made it back safe and sound. |
| Glad it went well....
I always stress before going anywhere I haven't been often too... HUGE anxiety if I have to go somewhere I've never been. |
I feel your anxiety, Ginny. I have no sense of direction and could get lost in a phone booth! If you put me out in the middle of a field and asked me which direction was north, I'd just stand there and cry!  Dale, on the other hand, can find anything anywhere. And all he has to do is go someplace once and he knows it for life.
I also share your thoughts about our kids growing up. It goes by WAY too fast!! Wish there was a magic potion to keep the kids at the age we like best and to keep our sheepies young. And, of course, to keep us from aging too! 
Chris |
| How does it happen so fast???? One day the kids the dogs and WE are youngd and the next.......... |
| I'm glad you made it home safely, Ginny.
I'm one of the fortunate ones who inherited a great sense of direction - from my dad. (My mom is more like you!) I never worry about finding my way anywhere even when I've never been there before in my life. An ability which has served me well in my work since I have to travel.
I do sympathize with you, though. I know it would be scary!! As for the children growing up too soon...I feel your pain! My oldest nephew will be 10 this year and I declare, as I live & breath, it seems like only a year has passed since he was born. How can it be?? |
| My mom cries every time we leave! Just last night she was saying how all her babies are leaving her (my older brother is applying for a job in central California) and she's like, I'll be all alone all my babies are leaving...and I'm like, Mom, Joe will be 30 next year...time for him to leave! |
| I had to drive my mom to the airport the other day, and we both cried like babies....its never easy leaving the ones you love...on the other hand, even though they move away, they always come home...even if its just for money, christmas gifts, birthday gifts, clean laundry or the best as in my stepdaughters case, just to snuggle up to you and watch tv...the dinner plate is never truely broken..... |
Darcy wrote: I had to drive my mom to the airport the other day, and we both cried like babies....its never easy leaving the ones you love...on the other hand, even though they move away, they always come home...even if its just for money, christmas gifts, birthday gifts, clean laundry or the best as in my stepdaughters case, just to snuggle up to you and watch tv...the dinner plate is never truely broken.....
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| OMG...you all have me crying...at work!
I think I may be a LITTLE homesick for my mom!!! I'm almost 36...and mom and I still cry when we part too!
I'm glad you made the trip well Ginny....just remember that if you do these things TOO WELL...you might have to do them all the time!!! Next thing you know you will be driving all over the country! |
| Wow, I can't even imagine it. My mom would never ever cry when parting with any of her five kids. She can't wait. She arranges visits that are the bare minimum of what she feels obliged to do (mostly with respect to getting to know her grandkids). When a job led me to move to her city last year, she and her husband spent most of the year travelling (more than usual) and, I am told, are planning to move somewhere else, somewhere far. I say I am told because they are mad at me and have not talked to me in months. . . I've always been a very nice daughter -- helpful, courteous, etc. But we were never close. You guys are very lucky and it is nice that you appreciate it. |
I always seem to do ok in a new place-- unless I'm with Jil and Holly....  |
Valerie wrote: Wow, I can't even imagine it. My mom would never ever cry when parting with any of her five kids. She can't wait. She arranges visits that are the bare minimum of what she feels obliged to do (mostly with respect to getting to know her grandkids). When a job led me to move to her city last year, she and her husband spent most of the year travelling (more than usual) and, I am told, are planning to move somewhere else, somewhere far. I say I am told because they are mad at me and have not talked to me in months. . . I've always been a very nice daughter -- helpful, courteous, etc. But we were never close. You guys are very lucky and it is nice that you appreciate it.
I am so sorry to hear that, I cannot imagine not being close to my kids. I know it happens and parents are really missing alot when they push their kids out of their lives. |
| Bless your heart, Val. I cannot imagine. It's unusual for me to go a day without talking to my folks. Thanks for the reminder to be grateful for what I have. |
| Val, you're breaking my heart! I also can't imagine not being close to my kids. Spencer's lived away from home for a year now, and he still asks for advice on things - and I LOVE it! Even though he's only about 3-4 hours away, I miss him SO much still. And Sarah is like my clone - We go through withdrawal if we don't talk a few times a week.
Tell ya what, I'll be your surrogate mom!
Chris |
| I appreciate the sympathy but I know that I've been very lucky in many other respects. I didn't mean to boo hoo. It is just that what you are describing is the complete opposite of my experience. I sometimes wonder what it would have been like. . . But I had a terrific relationship with my dear dad before he died and I would not trade experiences. He was wonderful and I credit him for developing my confidence and positive attitude.
Chris -- you are way too young to be my surrogate mom! But the sentiment is very sweet. I love my friends here. . .  |
| Val, my mom can be your surrogate mom! I went to college in the same city I grew up in, so my parents became all my friends' new parents too, and my mom LOVED it. She would always want to know when we were coming over to dinner (you should have seen how much we could eat!)
Anyways, she'll be your new mom...(even though she lives in CA)...and she has a sheepie too, so she's one of us... |
| Val,
I'm very happy that you were so close to your Dad. I think every kid needs at least one parent they can count on. My Mom and I are very close and very dependent on one another which can get on my nerves at times. I'm the only child and also come from divorce. We only live about 15 min from one another and she calls just about every day to talk about nothing. I am very grateful for her as she loves me unconditionally and is there for me whenever I need her and when I don't. Her Mom died young so she didn't get to know her very well. Mom vowed to be a "perfect" mother and she is close to it. Without her support and nurturing, I would've been in big trouble. Now my Dad...that's another story and I could write a book. XOXOX |
| I don't think there is any relationship more difficult to navigate than the mother/daughter relationship. My daughter and I have gone through the "tortures of the damned" to get to where we are but I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. For all the hard times (and believe me there were many ) the payback in good times has been 10 fold.
My biggest regret in life is that my own Mom didn't live to see that I had the daughter she always said I deserved !!!! Because as Darcy said, The apple doesn't fall far from the tree! I could write a book. But my daughter has grown into an absolutely deeeeeelightful young woman who (or is it whom???) I am proud to death of.
We all want the relationship with our own children to be somehow better than the relationships we had and yet we turn around and make the very same mistakes our parents made. Go figure!! Ahhhhh, I'm getting toooo philisophical for a Friday afternoon |
ButtersStotch wrote: I always seem to do ok in a new place-- unless I'm with Jil and Holly....
HEY! Just cause we get lost EVERYTIME we go somewhere |
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