avablog

We miss our little girl! Yesterday I took her to lovely Quasqueton, IA, and dropped her off with G.G., who then took Ava the rest of the way to Decorah for a two-day visit, just the two of them. Ava did experience some trepidation about the whole thing, but the prospect of today’s trip to the Laura Ingalls Wilder museum in Burr Oak seems to have taken her mind off of how much she misses her mom, dad, and Em Em. I think we’ve talked to Ava on the phone seven or eight times after dropping her off. Our conversation last night just before bed was the worst, as Ava was crying and wanting very much to come home. I quickly fired up the Web site for the LIW museum while Leah tried to calm Ava, and we noticed that the gift shop sells dolls. Thank jeebus! We told Ava to tell G.G. that they have our permission to buy a doll at the museum, which I presume they’ll do sometime this morning.

Ava’s scheduled to stay in Decorah one more night, but it’s going to take some doing to convince her to stick it out, I think. If anyone can do it, G.G. can! There seems to be no bottom to her bag of tricks.