A Holiday

David had his first day of 3rd year on Tuesday. Two years down, three to go. He will be at Children's Hospital for the next three months. It looks as though it will be a very busy time.

The children have wanted to have a garage sale for a long time and we finally did it. It was a good way to meet some neighbors. The kids had a lemonade stand and sold (drank) all of it. Even the postman bought some. We didn't have enough merchandise left to open the garage sale the next day. The kids were disappointed but I wasn't.

Anne has wanted to ride a real bike for a couple of months now, but we did not have one that was her size. On our way home from a neighbors house two weeks ago a PINK bike with training wheels that was just her size was left out on the curb, with a bike helmet. (Leaving things out on the curb is the way to get rid of things here. Everyone seems to know that if it is out by the road it is free for the taking.) Anne was thrilled. She set her jaw and learned to ride it in a few days. The training wheels are still on and they will stay on until she learns to use her brakes. We just decorated all of their bikes for a little Fourth Of July Parade tomorrow morning.

We spent some time at Bluebird Lake this week. It is a private lake, you have to live in the neighborhood in order to have access to it. Someone in our church lives in the Bluebird Lake neighborhood and invited anyone in church who cared to come. We went early and left late. If we lived in that neighborhood we would probably go there nearly every day. Jan spent hours out on the dock jumping in. Alec has been waiting for a year now to use his little fishing pole, so he spent several hours hooking bait up, untangling his line, casting and reeling it back in. I was impressed with his patience. He didn't catch anything, but one of the older boys did. The little girls liked the sand and shallows the best. We came home sunburned and tired.

I forgot Pati's swimming suit but Anne had been wearing a skirt with a drawstring...and it was perfect to tie around Pati's neck. Everyone kept saying that they loved her suit and had no idea that it was her sisters skirt.
Tomorrow David will be home part of the day (and all of the night!)which we weren't expecting. That makes it a holiday aside from our country's birthday.