Gypsy

A flight in the 172 this morning (I've got to get my logbook caught back up before I'm buried) was fairly uneventful, and was followed by lunch at Glenndale. We were supposed to have sloppy joes, but I had a craving for Subway, so I stopped and got that and took it to the airport instead. Nathan made it back from California late last night, Chuck is back from Oregon/Washington, and things are almost back to normal. :)

Kaylee told me this afternoon that she wanted to "talk", so I sat in her room for over an hour while we talked about a few things. Man can that girl come up with some serious questions, and you'd better have some real answers for her, too. One thing she asked me about that I feel I can actually share publicly was about me. She told me that her dad had told her that I used to move around a lot and that I would get restless and move somewhere else. I told her that was true, that I used to get restless in one place and I was always looking for somewhere new to live, that I'd move somewhere, find a job, get a place, and hang around until something else came up. I was looking at moving to Colorado or Hawaii (had a flight job I was going to go after) after I lived in Carmel (Indianapolis), and then I met her dad. She asked me if I ever still wanted to move somewhere else, and I told her no, that I had roots here, and family, and friends, and I belonged here now, even if it wasn't my favorite place when I first got here. :) But that I still like to do and try new things, go new places. I almost hated to tell her about some of that, because I don't necessarily want her to get the same bug and want to go live a bunch of places when she's young, especially in this day and age, but maybe no day and age was ever really all that safe--or dangerous--anyway... She'd be in God's hands, and her own, not mine, but still the idea makes me uneasy, I admit.

We also discussed the role of women in the world. There's a shallow topic, right? ;) She made a comment about the times when women only stayed home, and I made sure she knew that that was nothing to disparage. That it was an honorable, honest, difficult job of its own, but that the point is that now women can make the choice for themselves, what they want, what is right for their family. I have tons of friends and family who work incredibly hard as stay-at-home moms, who do an amazing job with their families and their homes, and I am proud of them and what they can do. I am also glad that I could combine the worlds a little for myself. Mostly I'm glad that there's a choice now, and a woman's future is not (legally) dictated to them by anyone.

Anyway, it's Friday night, time for a little TV, a little work, and a little relaxation. Tomorrow is a bit of work/fun mixed, and on goes life!