Casting Crumbs

My parents were so good to us and watched the kiddos so we could slip away for a couple days of relaxation and celebration of our 16 years of marriage. Thanks so much!!

Tom and I started our day away Friday morning and I must say it was off to a really rough start. We planned to go to Rocheport, MO to a B&B. They have a trailhead to the Katy Trail right there in the town so we were going to take our bikes and do some riding. Tom found that his bike tire was completely flat and off the rim when he went to load it up to leave. Oops! So we left them home and went bike-less.

We ended up doing some fabulous garage sale-ing, Tom lovingly refers to as treasure hunting, on the way out of town. We ate a wonderful lunch at Olive Garden and arrived in Rocheport in the afternoon. Rocheport (said as Roshe not Roach or Rock) is a very quaint town situated on the banks of the Missouri River not far from Columbia. It is filled with antique shops, galleries and Bed & Breakfasts. Many people stop there on their treks down the Katy Trail.

We stayed at the Yates House B&B. We would HIGHLY recommend this place to anyone! Dixie and Conrad are wonderful inn keepers and the hospitality is really felt. The inn is a newly built home patterned after homes in the 1850′s. The room we stayed in was charming and spoke of many yesteryears with it’s big antique furniture and muted colors. Very comforting. I told Tom that when I awoke Saturday morning it was like waking up in my Grandma Browns house in West Virginia. Good memories!

Over the past few weeks I have seen such a change in Jaden. He turned from the little boy that scowled and growled to this fun-loving, smiley kid that is FULL of questions!! I’m happy to see his change and his maturity. . .but the questions. . .oh my!

I have heard of those kids that spend their days asking their poor brain-tired Mommies those endless questions of “why”. However, this is my first real encounter with this on a scale of this magnitude. I am amazed by the wheels turning and spinning inside his little brain and the things he can come up with. So I thought I would share with you some of the really interesting ones.

“Mom, does a rocket ship go far far far up in the air? Then how does it know where to come back down in the right spot? . . .It must turn into some sort of airplane up there so it knows where to come down.”

“Mom, you remember when I was a big boy and wore those clothes and stuff. . ..did I get married?” (He was the ringbearer in Christi’s wedding and when I told him “no” you should have seen the instant relief on his face!)

Today he has begun bringing things to me and asking if they will float.