Dear Kids,
Don’t forget our campfire dinner tonight at 5 pm at our fire pit. You don’t need to bring anything but yourselves. The weather should be perfect, and now that it’s getting dark earlier, it’ll be more fun than in the middle of the summer when the sun never seems to go down. We’ll be roasting hot dogs and making s’mores. I’ve debated whether we should use plates or just eat with our hands, and since the whole menu is finger-ready, I think we should just eat by hand. You can pretend you’re at a baseball game. It doesn’t make sense to use plates since we don’t have any place to put them down while we eat, except on our laps, and that doesn’t work very well for younger kids. So let’s try this! If it doesn’t work, we’ll try something different next time.
Jacob’s “mission papers” are almost ready to go in! He’s only lacking the appointment with his stake president, and that’s happening a week for today. Then the button will be pushed, and we can start counting down to the exciting moment when he gets his call. I’m excited already.
The neighborhood raccoon is still eating Scout’s food, but I don’t really mind since I accidentally bought a jumbo bag of the wrong kind. I usually buy a green bag that’s labeled “seafood platter,” or something like that, but I accidentally got the sack that’s almost the same color, but it’s “chicken and green peas.” Our cats hate it. So every evening I fill up the garage cat bowl with this stuff, and the next morning it’s tipped over, empty. When I run out of it, I’ll get serious about mounting the cat food dispenser on the wall. Or, if Scout gets too hungry in between, he can fight off the raccoon. Or maybe he’s over at the Butlers eating the raccoon’s food. It’s all good.
The play yard at the cabin is finally finished, since Paul helped Dad heave up the roof yesterday. Most of the little kids tried it out at Super Sunday last week, (by the way, thanks to Donna and Bevan for hosting it) and everything seemed to work OK. We could still buy a spider web swing to trade off with the baby swing, but it would mean switching them back and forth, which might not be very convenient. Let me know if you think it would be a good thing to try. Also, maybe you can have your kids thank Dad for putting it together. It was quite a project, and in some places it was pretty tricky, but he was up for it.
I had my cat scan Friday at the Park City hospital, and Tuesday I’ll meet with my doctor and see how all that chemo affected my tumors. It has to have done something, for all the discomfort I’ve experienced, but the bottom line is that I can breathe now, which makes it all worthwhile. I can even blow up balloons!
Lots of love, Mom
