The best laid plans

can go awry. This we know. Dad got transferred upstairs to The Serenity Unit today. I went visiting this evening and it is indeed serene. If all goes as planned, he will be getting transferred to a nursing home in 14 days or so.

We were all scheduled to leave on our second family vacation in 16 days. I do not feel comfortable leaving at this time for so long, so I will be staying home and Billski will be traveling solo with all four kids for the first time.

I think he's going to take an extra day and break up the drive into 2 days each way. Amy let us borrow a DVD player with dual screens for the trip, so they should all be fine. I know the kids will be good for Bill and they will come back with hundreds of pictures of Washington, DC, caves, waterparks and other neat stuff.

I'm sorry to be missing the fun with the kids and Billski, but I have no doubt I would not be truly enjoying myself with my dad making a transition into the nursing home the same week I was 800 miles away from his new home.