Summer Vacation

Over the last six weeks I've been enjoying a vacation from social media

and have focused on my family!

 I've spent time at our cabin with friends,

discussed The Things They Didn't See at four book clubs,

spent a wonderful week back at the cabin with my daughter, son-in-law, their baby,
a few of their friends and a surprise arrival of another son and his girlfriend!

And topping it all off, I was in New York for ten days holding my newest granddaughter 

and playing with her big sister.

Each night I made dinner and the kids wandered "home" at varying times after work and school just like the old days when they were children and teenagers and you never knew when someone would arrive and another would have to leave.

It was a dream come true to once again have my children around my table multiple nights in a row,

juggling babies, parents eating with one hand, a preschooler running from one room to the next to help, to show us something, to go potty. A jumble of conversation and interruptions, laughs and calming tears. We planned early dinners so the my kids could get back to their homes early enough to put their kids to bed. 

Its so wonderful to get to relive these beautifully muddled nights with my family all over again.

(Have you read the Emma M. Lion books yet by Beth Brower?

Part Jane Austen part Anne of Green Gables.

You. Will. Love. Them!

I also celebrated my 55th birthday!