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This Week So Far

We started off our week on Monday morning losing power at about 7:30 am. That really wasn’t so bad as we have a generator – something we have to have if we want to be able to do Bethany’s treatments when we lose power. Later that day our brand new microwave, that we just bought to replace the one that died a week ago, died. Immediately after that we lost internet. Losing the internet was bad because Bill has to work from home, but you obviously need internet for that. Thank goodness we got it back late this afternoon. 
Its been a long month. I’m so used to seeing my older kids and my grandkids several times a week and some of them every single day.  I have a brand new baby granddaughter that I can’t visit and it’s really sad. But, we have tried to find lots to do and make and read this past month. Today I took Bethany for a ride up the street to drop a letter she wrote to her Sunday school teacher in the mailbox. She was actually excited to just go for the ride. Anyway, I was talking about how everyone had to stay home more and there were many just like us with a “Stay at Home” mandate. I told her that lots of kids were probably bored not being able to see friends or teachers or do the extra activities they do. She kind of surprised me by immediately saying, “They must not have a very interesting home like we do then.” And it just hit me how content she is. She’s ok with being home and making things and finding projects to do or new things to bake. It actually made my day and you know it really isn’t so bad. We are here together and spending a ton of time reading and talking – it’s good. 

What We Are Reading

We read Return to Gone-Away by Elizabeth Enright as soon as we finished Gone-Away Lake. I think I loved it more than the first one, but hard to say. I loved the old house and discovering things – old furniture, trunks of clothes and jewels, etc. I can really get into them painting and decorating and making the old house a home. I loved when they took a walk and looked back at their home and started thinking about how it would look in the fall with the beautiful colored trees all around the house and in the winter with the lights all warm and shining in the windows. It sounded so warm and cozy and that is definitely my kind of book. 
 
I asked the kids which book they liked best and it was pretty much half and half and I understand why. Gone-Away Lake – so exciting and interesting and all the old run down houses and the marsh and wildlife and the brother and sister they met. It was a summer to remember. Then the “Return” book so homey but still lots of interesting things happening. As many times as I have read these two books they never get old to me. 
 
Bella, eating out on the deck – one of the hundreds of cookouts we have had since having to stay home – and it’s not over till June 10. 
 
 
 
 
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