I remember! My mother had taken me to her old hometown, where she hadn't lived since she was 19, to visit her sister, which we did occasionally. This was in another state about 1/3 of the way across the US.

Whenever we would go there, we would go around to visit some of her old friends who still lived there. I was always terribly bored, because I was just supposed to sit on the couch with my hands folded in my lap while the two of them reminisced.

One day, when visiting a certain friend whose name I don't remember. I don't remember her face, either. A guy they had known when they were young came over. I think one of them had called him and said of course Louise and her little girl are in town and they're over here."

Somehow, guy asked me if I could ski. I told him I thought I could, so he said let's go outside and see. We went Across The Street, and I started skipping down the sidewalk. Apparently, I wasn't doing it the proper way, so this man who is probably 50 or 55 years old started skipping down the sidewalk properly, and making sure I knew how to alternate my legs.

I thought of that many years later when my own daughters were taking ballet class, baby ballet, and the teacher spent a long time teaching them how to lift their knees to skip with Alternating legs.

My mother died 28 years ago, and I'm sure those other people, even if I could remember their names, our long Deceased. I don't live anywhere near her hometown, and have no reason to go there, so I'll never skip on that particular sidewalk again, which is just fine with me.

Right now we only have two grandchildren, and they live at least halfway across the US from us. We're in the middle, and our oldest son and his wife and their two daughters live in California. My work keeps me very busy, as my husband's keep him busy, and her son and daughter-in-law also have busy jobs. And they have the two little kids. We don't get to see them nearly as often as we would like. It seems that when we are available to travel to them, they have things going on that would make having visitors very inconvenient. I will do my best to clear my schedule just to get a chance to see the girls, but cross-country travel with little ones and four adult adults and demanding jobs just gets complicated.