Hanging out with family

Make no mistake, I love new and exciting adventures, but what really gives life its contentment is hanging out with the people you care about.  Fortunately, this trip has provided opportunity for both, so that makes it really fantastic.

The latest aspect of this, is hanging out with Richard, Jennie, Tova Elise and Rowan.  Richard works as a teacher and administrator at the largest middle school here in Gavle, Jennie is a researcher who just got back from Italy, Tova has just started Montessori first grade and Rowan is now a senior at the daycare.  They have busy and ordered lives, which I am blessed to share for a while.  So, I have made supper for the kids, and put them to bed; worked in the flower garden; helped around the house a bit, all the normal stuff.  But we have also done crafts, played games, gone out to lunch and walked by the sea, gone biking and today we helped at the cleanup day for the cross-country ski club which Tova and Jennie frequent.  It was washing cupboards and cleaning windows and painting fence sections -- normal things done with a great group of people.  They are all the things that make life good.  A mother is delighted when her kids have good lives.