Day 15

Cutting the grass at our empty house that's for sale and playing with cousins was all that was on the schedule today. We didn't like the grass part, but we loved the cousin part! My brother and his family are in town this week, and we haven't seen some of them for two long years! So we were at my parents' house all day visiting. We played games, giggled, told stories, talked about food, made food, and ate food.

It was fun to be together after so long. The teenagers were kind of quiet last time they were together. Their personalities are all that way; but this time, they weren't at all. They were competing with some little light game that you chase around the board. You hit a circle every time it lights up red, but not green. You get a point every time you hit one. We couldn't believe it when their cousin Jake got 535, until Sarah got 537!

I had to laugh when all four of them filed into the kitchen talking about how "that was disgusting, wash your hands." They didn't say what it was until we were in the car on the way home. Apparently, they were playing with marbles that had been in the fish tank and they didn't realize it right away. I think they were guessing how many there were and then they were going to count them. Don't you love teenagers? They're so much fun!

We also talked about Jake and marching band. He plays percussion. I called all over town to see if I could find a marimba at a music store, because I'm dying to see him play it with 4 mallets. Well, actually I made Jeff call all over town. No luck though.


Another cousin day tomorrow! See you then!