Bye bye summer

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It's been a crazy summer.  I wonder what we'll remember most later....Remember the summer the AC went out and they had to come fix it twice? Remember when we had water in the basement and they had to dig up our yard to solve the problem?  Remember when we went to Children's Hospital for X-rays three times?  Remember when somebody stepped on a nail and ended up in the emergency room?  Remember when our oven broke and they came out three times to try to repair it?  Remember the carpenter ants?  Yes, ALL that stuff actually happened to individuals in our household this summer.

But, I hope in the end we remember this as the summer the kids got to go to camp, where they ziplined and "blobbed" to their hearts' content.  The summer when we went to Michigan and had the biggest bedroom in the house, and where everyone pitched in to balance the pontoon boat juuuuuuust right so that we could wheel Kevin onto it not just once but TWICE for nighttime rides under the moon. The summer when we got to take our masks off from time to time and actually hug people!  The summer when the kids chatted up aunts and uncles and friends while being shuttled around town to appointments and camps and retreats. The summer we looked for every opportunity to have a family movie night (where we watched some great movies and also some stinkers!).  The summer Kevin and I began each day by sharing a very late and lazy breakfast together, looking up species of birds that we see out the patio doors (a rose-breasted grosbeak!  A coopers hawk!), and spying the occasional deer family ("aw, aren't they pret...wait, are they eating the hydrangeas?!?")....