"How long has it been since we visited nana," Ashlyn asked her mother while thumbing though a magazine!?! "Oh, at least two years," her mother replied quickly while maneuvering their car through the busy city traffic, "it was just six months after dad died, so it's been just about two years!!!" "Don't you think we should have called her first," Ashlyn asked seriously, "what if she's out of town or something, we'll look pretty dopey driving five hundred miles for nothing!!!" Her mother gave a short laugh and replied, "Well if she isn't there we can just spend a few days in the big city shopping, besides, I have a key to her apartment and we can stay at her place, so don't worry about it, one way of the other we'll have good time!!!"
"There it is," Katie said to her daughter, "isn't that number 2345 on that red brick building on the corner!?!" "Yup, that's it," Ashlyn replied, "boy, is grandma gonna be surprised to see us, I hope she still makes ... MORE