I was so excited about our family vacation last summer. We had never really ventured too far from home, so when we decided to take a vacation to Europe for a month, it was a really big deal. It was all the kids could talk about for months before the trip and I was sure that we were ready. I just had to put last minute details together.

I didn’t want to forget anything. We had canceled the paper, our neighbor took our cat and we gave the fish away. I couldn’t think of anything else that we needed to do. The night before we were to leave my mother asked me who we had hired to do garden maintenance.

Okay, so there was something that we had forgotten. This made me upset, as I knew if we let the garden go, it would be hard to get it back the following year. My mother offered to hire someone for us and I told her I would bring her back something extra special. She told me an older Greek gentleman would be fine. Ha ha!