Molly does not get it. "Why are we celebrating because Grandma and Grandpa are leaving?" says Molly. "I am sad. It is not a celebration". And in one way she is correct. She likes it when we arrive and her opinion is that we should just stay in one place and not keep moving around. But Thursday morning we are leaving Mississippi for Texas so tomorrow evening we will all have dinner at a new Chinese restaurant in Ridgeland, near our condo. We will celebrate that fact that we have been together and that we will meet again in Texas in a month at our 55th.
The concept of time is difficult for a child of 5. She knows we will return to Mississippi in December but that seems forever. Actually, she likes to beat me at games. She beats everyone at Concentration and tonight she beat us twice at dominoes. Her opinion is that we should have dinner with them every evening. I suspect she likes us to come for dinner because mostly we have desert, but perhaps she just enjoys the activity and the conversation. But whatever the reason, she does not want us to leave...but she will certainly enjoy dinner tomorrow night at the Chinese restaurant, to celebrate our Thursday departure. I explained it to her tonight, that at some point in our life we will be forced to stay in place, but not yet, so she will have to get used to our comings and goings. Everyone else does!!
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