Getting ready in a house with 2 1/2 bathrooms, 6 people, and staggered schedules requires a progressive schedule - which worked really well! Mark gets up early and makes coffee - and gets the reward for the morning's most valuable player! Ethan then Trisha then Jerad - showers and breakfast and conversations with DaddyDaddy and Grandma Jean - till all three of them are off to school and work. Mark is off work today so we have the great pleasure of hanging out with him all day!
We spend the first part of the morning touring the yard and gardens which Mark has created with his talent and his patience and his enthusiasm for nature. Coffee on the patio follows along with lots of great family and world conversation. We didn't quite solve the world's problems but we got close! But first we had to go shopping for the ingredients we need for Harold to create the magic trick he has promised he will create for Jerad. We cover all the usual suburban big box stores in search for the special ingredients we need and find them at last. Of course we can't record what they are or the trick might be stolen from one of our loyal readers! Not!
Lunch at home includes Trisha who is training for some new responsibilities at work and is glad for the break away from work - not to mention the opportunity for lunch with her in laws :). Leftover fajitas hit the spot, but far too soon it is time for Trisha to return to work.
Early afternoon is filled with tomato plant planting and creation of the magic trick. Jerad arrives home just in time to give the trick its final touches and to master the delivery. Ethan arrives home with his yearbook so we have lots of fun going through it and talking about his friends as we find their photos throughout the book. I'll just say that yearbooks have come a long way, baby, since the Class of 1965!
Off we go to Jerad's baseball scrimmage (see the photos as soon as Harold gets them uploaded) where he wows us with his hitting and fielding. Our team wins and gains valuable practice for the season ahead.
Back home we enjoy adult beverages and get ready for the most gigantic slabs of ribs I've ever seen. Of course we are up to the challenge and the six of us make quick work of devouring them along with salad and corn on the cob - Yum!
It's a beautiful evening and we enjoy everything about our family and their home and dogs and being. Life is good.
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