It has been hard for me to think about blogging anything this week. Nicholas and Hannah left last Thursday and my parents left also. I can’t begin to describe the chaos our family creates when we are all together. We literally go from one game to another until the wee hours of the morning. We talk, debate and argue. Newcomers to our family are always a bit taken back by the arguing. Who needs a logic program when 9 (10-1, my husband doesn’t argue) people are going to make you prove everything you say? The only thing I can compare it to is perhaps the Kennedy family including the football. One of my favorite things about the boys is that the are oblivious to age differences. When they go outside to play football, they ALL go. From 23yo cage-fighting Timothy (this is called transparency, folks) to weenie 6yo Alex, all on the same field with the same heart.

After the game, the motley crew sitting on….my couch. It really is nasty and I am sorry if you visit but you will have to sit on this same couch.

My daughters, new and old. The girls are relegated to cheer leading during football games although the boys do sometimes let the girls in on tennis ball. So you see while they don’t use age-based discrimination, they do tend to be chauvinistic. On the other hand, having more girls around is lovely for me. I love my daughters-in-law more every time I am around them and I know Emily is happy with the change. She actually got to go shopping twice last week.

Saying goodbye:

We also played several games of Dictionary (Balderdash with only a dictionary), Rook, poker (not me), Tabu, dominoes, marbles and rummy. We quoted poetry and discussed books and movies. I even cooked. So you can imagine that after a week of that blogging was a bit difficult.

I have a couple of posts I want to get in before I say goodbye on Friday, I just hope I can pull all my thoughts together by then.

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