Show Time

I have a show today. I have been working so much less this year than last. It's nice. It is nice to feel so comfortable and relaxed and know that I will still have money coming in.
The Blondie boy is up with a friend snowboarding. The Older boy is sitting on the couch playing video games with the Littlest one watching.
Bling Daddy just got up and is not really making noises yet. Well, he is, but they are unintelligible. Sending Blondie up to the mountains to ride makes me so happy. He is such an active kid and he loves to move his body. Since we are NOT a physically active family, it's nice that he has friends who are!
This is one of those hopeful days. One of those days that is full of promise. Promise that the summer will be here soon. Hope that it will be as fun as the summers we've had before. Promise that tonight the sun will be up an hour longer. Hope that we will soon be sitting outside in the evenings on the swing. Promise that once again, our trees will turn green and our garden will grow.
I am getting ahead of myself with summer. We still get to enjoy spring first! We are going up to Portland for Spring Break again this year. We will spend a weekend at the beach with the entire family in the same great, huge house we always do. The kids will ride their boards to the beach and goof around in the little town of Seaside. The moms and grandmas and nieces will shop in the stores and laugh and drink cocktails at any hour they choose. The Dads and Uncles will grouse about the women shopping and sit around and watch horrible TV. All of the menfolk will go to the Arcade and play stupid video games. And we will ALL eat elephant ears. Nasty, sticky, sweet elephant ears.
Then we'll go to Granmda's house and she'll cook too much and we'll eat too much. Grandma and I will knit. This time I want to knit a scarf that my sweet friend Jessica made for me. Grandma will love it and so will all of her Christmas gift recipients. Grandma and I love to knit and that is where all of the family stories come out. This will be our first visit since Grandpa died. We'll miss him so much. At the end of our visit, the whole family will drive up to The Lake house and put Grandpa's ashes into the lake he loved for most of his life. Then we'll have dinner at Pine Hollow to celebrate.
All very predictable, all very hopeful and all building family memories.
After what our community and our friends and family have been through this past year, it is ever clear how important these family memories are. It's a short time we have with one another, whether it is 2 years, or 89 years. It is too short. Cherish every moment.