Explain how golf and travel bond you with your adult children.

I have always loved golf ever since high school. Over the years, it took a back burner to raising children and work. Once our children, Brianna and Allen, became adults, though, they also found a love for the sport and something we could share. We play golf for fun (but always competitively!), we’ve played in the Lion’s Annual Golf Tournament as a team, and for many years we’ve had the annual Seymour Family Golf Tournament. This entitles the winner’s name engraved on our special trophy we had made. This trophy then travels to the winner’s home and it gives that person a years worth of bragging rights! When not playing together, we also enjoy traveling to watch the professionals play in the US Open and the Ryder Cup. These are wonderful memories we all share!

My college roommate coined the term WAC’s. This meant women of adventure and conviction! Brianna has endeared herself to this term and has included me in on her travels. She wouldn’t have to take me on her business travels to the hinterlands of northern Minnesota or Kentucky, but she does it because we have fun!

She takes me to various adventures in Vegas, to skiing in many states also for the love, the fun, and the laughter! She has taken me to Europe where we hiked the Swiss Alps, hiked Cinque Terra in Italy. While there, we went to the Vatican and were awed by the Basilica. We shopped the backstreet markets in Cairo and rode the camels outside Giza, and went inside the claustrophobic pyramids. So much fun, so many memories, so blessed! On a two week trip that we went on 14 years ago, my last entry in that journal was…..I reflect on how my life’s journey has been enriched by my daughter, Brianna. How after 2 weeks of teaching me how to flush every toilet we came across in Europe and Africa, she still has a warm heart and wonderful smile for me. She has given me her love, her joy of travel, which is a gift beyond words. I hope I have given her something in return.