Mid June

 Our three youngest kids spent last week with my parents and their only cousin on my side of the family. They went to zoos and parks and Sauder Village in Ohio. They played games.  They ate delicious food. They made friends with a girl who lives next to my parents. It was all very good.

My Dad took this pic so he isn't in it obviously. The guy on the far left is my younger brother, who lives close to my parents.

This is the second year that my parents have taken our younger kids for a week in the summer. Last year, I was in pain from an anal fissure that took literally months to heal and was very unpleasant.

THIS year, Kevin was the one hit with stupid health stuff. He has something going on with one ear which is causing hearing problems and some  dizziness. He has also been having substantial back and right leg pain. So we didn't do anything very special this week together because he wasn't feeling good.

Well, we did one thing; we finally watched Project Hail Mary, based on the book by that name by Andy Weir. It was a brilliant movie. I love it so much. It is a little less sciency than the book, but there are some additions to the movie that are actually an improvement over the book. 

So yeah, that was FUN. We bought it on Amazon so we can watch it again whenever we want. Just as a "hey, that's hilarious" thing... to rent the movie and watch it once was $20. To buy it was $25.

Ok, we will buy it.

I met my parents in Sauder Village yesterday and brought our kids home. The house was SO quiet while they were gone, but today we have seven kids roaming around because no one is working and Isaac is visiting.

The kids opened their Universal Yums box today. We have a monthly subscription. Universal Yums provides snacks and foods from various countries, one country each month. This month was India.

I swam almost every day last week and now that the kids are back, there will be even more swimming. the pool is a delicious temperature.

The kids were hanging in the living room this morning, chattering with one another.  Warms the cockles of my heart.

That's about it!  We have two birthdays this month, which is exciting. I am working away on another book, of course, which is exciting.

Kevin is not feeling great, which stinks, but we think these will heal up in time. It is just very annoying.