Posts tagged Age 7
Posts tagged Age 7
“Are we there yet?” Those four words are the most dreaded by any parent who squeezes a week’s worth of clothes and a family of four into a 1997 Pontiac for an eight-hour drive across the United States.
My grandparents were always the first to begin the annual Thanksgiving family migration to Kansas, and out of eagerness to play with my cousins as long as possible, I would leave with them. But that wasn’t the only reason. No, about halfway between home and our destination, they once made the mistake of stopping at a mall for a restroom break. Like any child my age, I was a master at sniffing out the only toy store in the mall; and so began the tradition of buying a toy to keep me busy for the rest of the drive.
That first year, however, I hadn’t realised the mall was halfway, and I continually asked, “Are we there yet?”
