I'll See You In The Sky
When you live so far away from your family it can be very hard on you. Especially when you live on an island in Alaska, where there's no competition for the expensive airline and there's no way you can drive to other places.
I've only been able to visit my daughter and her family once in three years and it was wonderful! I met one of my grand daughters for the first time (at age 3) and my oldest grand daughter I'd seen only once before, when she was 8 months old. I'd received plenty of photos of the girls and many times I'd looked at Alyssa's with interest, as even on paper she appeared to be "Special," with the light reflection in her eyes resembling stars in many of them. At the time of my visit she was four and a half.
My daughter showed them photos of me and had been telling them all about me for weeks; that I'm her mom, that I live near Santa Claus, and as she did all their lives, she told them of my love for them. When I got off the plane and walked through the gate, Alyssa, my daughter's oldest, stood in front of me with outstretched arms, ready and willing to accept this new "Gramma" person into her life. Kaela, the three year-old, was more reserved and buried her little face in her mother's lap when I looked at her.
It didn't take long for Kaela to warm up to me and by evening's end they were both begging to spend the night with me. I was happy to oblige and we ate ice-cream before bed, and I must have told them fifteen bedtime stories that night. When I was finally able to squeeze my tired body in between them in the double-sized bed, it was easy to drift off to sleep.
In my dream, I got up and went outside for some fresh air and found the breeze warm and refreshing as it blew my waist-length hair around my face. I stretched and yawned, and my feet lifted off the ground and left me hovering just inches above the grass. I stretched again and went a little higher, and this excited me to no end! I stretched again and again, each time rising higher and higher until I was standing in the air just above the walnut tree-top, when I turned and saw the neighbor also standing in the air above the trees in his yard. He smiled and nodded a greeting at me and told me I didn't have to reach up like that when I wanted to move. "Simply think of where you want to be, and you'll be there," he explained. I tried it and found it too easy and lots of fun. I flitted around the early morning sky as dawn began to break, laughing and squealing like a child.
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