Christmas is
fast approaching and Grammy is preparing to fly to Kentucky for a Christmas
vacation with her family.
Kentucky is
very different from Grammy’s home town of Carson City, Nevada. It is very green
with lots of trees, where northern Nevada is dry and sandy; most who have seen
it would call it a waste land. But Grammy loves it as it is the place where
Jesus has called her to serve Him. This Grammy does by sharing the Good News
with everyone she meets. But today Grammy
is preparing to take the Good News to Kentucky. She wants to share it with her
daughter’s family while she visits for Christmas.
Grammy is in
her bedroom, suitcase opened, and clothes lying all over the bed and hanging
out of the suitcase. She is dressed in her bathrobe and favorite bunny slippers
with her hair wrapped in an old, tattered towel – she has just conditioned it
with henna. Grammy is standing in front of her closet, hands on her hips and
shaking her head as she tries to decide what she should pack in her suitcase
for her trip.
“I guess I
should go turn on the weather channel so that I can pack what I need for the
weather back there,” Grammy shrugged. So she turned on the TV and tuned to the
weather channel. “Snow? Wow, it’s going to be colder at Sis’s than it has been
here so far this winter. I shall have to pack my winter clothes and boots after
all.”
As Grammy
turns to fold the sweaters and jeans that are lying thrown over the suitcase
she notices that Kokoa, her tiny black and brown munchkin kitten is sleeping
all curled up in her favorite white sweater. “Well my dear,” Grammy coos as she
picks up the kitten, “you need to find a different bed. If you stay in there
you will end up going with me to Sister’s house. But I don’t think you would
like your travel accommodations inside my bag in the luggage compartment. They
don’t heat that part of the plane and you will get very cold.”
With that
Grammy sets the kitten on the floor to finish her packing and the kitten runs
out of the room to pounce on her big sister and bigger brother.
“Now that
the suitcase is ready to go, I should set everything together by the front
door,” Grammy murmurs.
So she sets
about gathering her laptop and the books she plans to take. Next she sets her
heavy coat on top, gloves in the pockets, over the suitcase. Lastly she puts
the Christmas gifts for her family into a box and moves everything into the
entry hall to wait for the taxi to take her to the airport. Then Grammy sits in
her big chair to read a bit until the taxi arrives.
This is when Kokoa decides to have a bit of
fun. She starts chasing dust bunnies around the entry hall; which quickly erupts
into a mad rush of catch the tail. After about 10 minutes of running around
full boar, Kokoa is worn out. So she crawls into a nice warm, dark spot for a
long nap. And where do you think she ends up? That’s right in the bottom of the
large pocket on Grammy’s heavy coat. But no one knows that she is there.
The taxi
picked up Grammy and took her to the airport. Grammy settled into her seat
on the plane with a good book and starts to read as the plane takes off for the
Nashville, Tennessee airport and Grammy’s Christmas vacation in Kentucky with
her family … and all the while Kokoa is still sleeping deep down in Grammy’s heavy
coat pocket.
I think we
will leave her there, fast asleep … until next time!
