They all occupied a slice of my day today.
Last night Jackie and Will had some friends over to enjoy a campfire so Dawn and I joined them for a while (being very careful not to overstay our welcome!).
So this morning, Dawn and I thought it might be nice to kick off the day with a quiet, "camping style" start. You know, coffee, campfire and muffins. By the way, if you haven't sat around a campfire for breakfast recently, you really should - it is such a relaxing way to start the day!
Then we picked up the chairs and stuff from the party and the day began.
I went over to the school and spent a little under an hour getting ready for tomorrow, then came home to find everybody finally awake. Nothing like sleeping most of you life away, eh? Haha! (Couldn't resist that little jab - after all, it's my Dad's fault because he always had a comment if we slept past 9am!)
We talked the morning away and caught up on all that was happening. Throughout the day yesterday and this morning, Will filled us in on his new job opportunity in Chico, CA. As with any big move, there is a lot of excitement mixed with a bit of apprehension and about every other emotion in between!
On a very different note, we talked about his new computer. He was really irritated that PC's have so much stuff running in the background. We pulled up the task manager and looked over the very long list of items (that might as well be written in Greek since you can't figure out what they are for and what they are doing!) and he was going crazy looking at so much of his RAM was being eaten up by stuff he didn't even need. It didn't help at all when he found out how much RAM Vista uses! "A brand new computer and why does it have to come with so much junk on it?! Errr!" (or something like that. haha)
Okay, the Mac is running really well. Jury's still out though! Keep you posted.
After lunch we said goodbye to the kids as they headed back to school and work, and we went over to Steve's house to help him rake up the yard. He had some excavation work done in his back yard so now he has new dirt covering most of his front and side yards too. I must admit, working for PennDot has honed his skills to a superb level of expertise! Man, he can lean on a rake like no body's business!!! Just kiddin' Steve, just kiddin'!
After that we took a ride to the southern part of Pymatuning Lake, Pa., to relax and talk for a while. It was a very good way to work through the likely hood that our daughter will be moving to California next year. (Well, that is their plan!)
On our way back home, we stopped at an ice cream stand and watched a little girl glowing over the fact that her mother said she could keep the change from their ice cream order - two whole dollars! Oh, was she happy! We sat one table away from them to eat our ice cream and watched her finish the Superman cone, smiling and chattering away at her mother.
Dawn and I sat and reminisced about our little three year old girl that loved to wear old dance costumes and her Dutch wooden shoes clip-clopping down the sidewalk in town! She was adorable! Now we get to appreciate the stunning beauty (both inside and out) of this very talented nineteen year old young lady that we have the privilege of calling "our daughter".
Later, the little girl at the ice cream stand finished her cone and half skipped, half bounced away to the car holding her mothers hand.
"I just want to tell her mother, 'enjoy this moment because before you know it she'll be all grown up and moving off to California,' " Dawn said.
Don't forget to enjoy this day, they truly fly by in the blink of an eye.
God bless.
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