She asked if I was going to take my computer along.

I said, “Maybe I won’t this time.  It’s heavy, and I doubt I’ll need it anyway.”

She said I most definitely needed to take it along, ‘just in case.’

I said, “It’s going to be a busy weekend.”

She said it didn’t matter, that I should have it along.

And so, when I was about done packing, and I saw her slip my computer into my backpack, I let it be.

It hasn’t been too heavy this time, and there have been several things I have observed that have left deep impressions on me.

But what she doesn’t know, is that she left quite an impression, all by herself, when she asked me to go with her to Garden, to, ‘buy a few things and get a coffee,’ the day before we left.

And, I went with her.

And, I could see, once we got on our way, that our little outing was more about time together than getting coffee, although the coffee did taste quite nice.

So, I thought on it, while we were together, and I was hassling her about where we were going to eat dinner, and she was adamantly assuring me she was NOT picking this time, even though in the next breath she told me to give her options and she would kick some out and leave a couple left for me to decide.

And, I chuckled quietly to myself, when, after I had given her some options for lunch, she ended up saying she knew those pupusa’s had been calling her name, but she really felt like sushi.  Because I knew then, where we would eat lunch together.

I thought of the trip I was about to take, the one I’m on now, to a wedding in Pennsylvania.  I thought of what weddings are like; sort of really nice, but sort of really sad, for the families involved.

And I thought of the new home that will be started tomorrow, and of the adjustments that will come, because they do.

And I wondered, if maybe those adjustments might be just a little more seamless when the bride to be and her crusty old dad are able to have a few of those father/daughter trips and it just so happens she chooses where to eat for dinner.