Received a Gift: an Unexpected Visit to Family!
(nabloppmo day 9) I am writing this post erev Shabbat* from sunny south_______, where I am (suddenly!) here visiting two of my kids, my son-in-law, and three of my grandkids. This is a last-minute gift from someone (thank you, D.!) who has a heart of gold. So on 3 days notice I packed, called old friends to see if we can get together, and--arrived today, around 4:00 p.m. local time. It is a very, very short visit: five full days, two half-days of travel. Better a short visit, than no visit, I say. I will get to see my mom-in-law whom I haven't seen in at least a year and who is approaching her 89th birthday ( ad me'ah ve-esrim shanah *), and although these two daughters came with the grandkids for Pesach *, I was pretty sick then with a bout of bronchitis, didn't go with them to the mountains on their sledding trip on chol ha-mo'ed *, and didn't have much energy for anything (let alone "making Pesach," which my husband did almost entirely by himsel...