Family Day

Wait a minute aren’t you a week and a day late? Why, yes I am, thank you very much for noticing. .. … . as it turned out, all our kids were able to be here for supper last night. So we took the opportunity to use it as our family day.

We started our day off with a delicious brunch of home-made waffles, sausages and scrambled eggs ~ spent time in the afternoon and had a ball playing an engrossing game of Risk: world domination ~ and of course supper ~ where we sat around the table, and ate a sumptuous dinner of meatballs, cheesy spaghetti, garlic toast, coleslaw and for dessert? vanilla ice cream, strawberries, caramel sauce, peanuts, and cookies. {not bad for someone who doesn’t have a lot of extra food on hand - huh?} Then we enjoyed the rest of the evening with some time spent in the hot tub, chatting in the family room and just enjoying each other's company.  It made the evening quickly speed by. {ugh!, the picture I took of us eating supper will not load for some reason - so here's our most recent family photo ~ sorry}

It was sooooooo {each o is multiplied by 1000 on the excitement scale} wonderful to have everyone home ~ it makes this old farm house seem more alive when it‘s full. With laughter echoing through the rooms, extra stuff laying around and having more food being served in one meal that we’d normally eat throughout the whole day, I’d say our time was well spent.

With it being just the two of us for the past several years, I hadn’t realized how accustomed we’ve become to having things fairly quiet and organized around here. To be honest, it did take some time to adjust ourselves to having extra people around, stuff in other places and probably the biggest to adjustment was having people awake and chatting at 3 in the morning.

Would I change it? Not for anything!!!

These family times happen so few and far between that I am just going to cherish each and every moment that we shared these past few days.

Blessings