Lucky Ducks

They don’t quack, but my kids are LUCKY! They just got home from a two-week vacation in MN - one week alone with two sets of grandparents and one week with me and Hubby there.

Lucky to have grandparents that love them and are young enough to have the kids stay with them during the summer without Hubby and I being there.

Lucky to have a Mom who doesn’t mind a good road trip and will meet her FIL in the middle of Nebraska to trade the kids one day and drive back home the next day. Lucky to have a Grandfather who will do the same.

Lucky to have a Dad who got us hotel rooms in NE at a hotel with a water slide.

 

Lucky to have a Grandpa that loves to show them new things, like The Archway Museum in Kearney, NE.

 

Lucky to have Grandparents that like to camp so much that they will take you camping for a week and show you how humid and green MN can actually be

 

Lucky to have a Grandpa who LOVES to fish and knows all the best spots on the lake so you ALWAYS catch fish.

 

Lucky to have a Grandpa that will let you climb all over him (and walk all over him!)

 

Lucky enough to have an Aunt who owns a cabin on a lake and is willing to spend the day with us so you can jump off the pontoon into the lake to swim.

 

Lucky enough to have an Uncle who bought a new jet ski and lets you and your Mom take it for a spin.

 

Lucky enough to have another Uncle who will take you tubing.

 

Lucky to have a Grandma who will let you do almost anything, including riding around the yard on the lawnmower in 90 degree heat and humidity.

 

Lucky to have a Godmother that will take the entire day off of work so she can spend time with you and help you get to know her kids better.

 

Lucky to have parents that will let you have ice cream twice in one day.

 

Lucky to have a Grandpa who was a member of the volunteer fire department for over 25 years and got permission to take you for a ride in a real live fire truck!

 

Lucky enough to return from the fire truck ride at the exact time another fireman entered the firehouse and mentioned that he had to drive a fire truck in a parade in a neighboring town that evening.

Lucky enough to have a Grandpa who volunteered to drive the fire truck in the parade so you could ride in it again and throw candy during the parade!

 

Lucky enough to be the very first entry in the parade, so that when you made it to the end, you could park the fire truck, sit on the curb, and get candy from all the other entries.

 

Lucky enough to have a Mom that will make the ride home longer when she stops at the military vehicle museum you have been wanting to see for the past 7 years every time we drive by it on our way to or from MN.

 

Lucky enough to see a 48-star flag.

 

Lucky enough to see ammunition that is actually taller than you are, which, by the way, you thought was way cool.

 

Lucky enought to have a sister that happily spent an hour at the museum with you even though she could have cared less and all she wanted to do was get home.

 

My kiddos are so lucky to have such wonderful Grandparents and to be able to experience such wonderful things. Thank you to everyone who made their trip special . . . cousins who slept in tents and collected teeny tiny frogs with them, grandparents who tended to them when they had fevers and weren’t feeling well, aunts and uncles who took time off of work so they could have a fun day at the lake, Grandparents who took them camping and fishing, a Godmother who went out of her way to make sure she spent time with them and made them feel special, Grandparents who took them to a parade in a fire truck . . . thanks to all of you.