As a kid, when I would sleep over at my grandmothers house, she would always make me a thick pallet bed out of quilts on her living room floor. Mom did the same thing for her grandchildren I could not even begin to tell you how many pallets Nana happily made for her "grand babies" in her lifetime. This morning, I woke up to pallets on my living room floor! It made me so happy! The kids sleep downstairs in the living room often, but never before in this house in Japan have they had cousins to curl up with!
Beth and Elise arrived last night!!! Elise, Jack, and Josh have been the best of friends for over 13 years. They haven't seen each other in a while and I was a bit worried that they might have drifted apart. They are lanky, moody teenagers now. Their voices have changed and one of them is in braces! But, from the instant they saw each other in the airport, they were the same old crazy kids who made mud cities in Nana's driveway and rode around in the trailer of Papa's riding lawn mower. They instantly laughed and joked and reminisced over silly stories (they got a little noisy when they reminisced about Uncle Scotty's tuxedo pants. The ones that he wore over to Grandmas house. Remember that Kim?).
We have one week to catch up on 2 years of missing each other. I think that we can do it over train rides, and sushi dinners, and skate park lessons, and, best of all, pallets on my living room floor.
