All Good Things . . .

Well, tomorrow Maren and Gavin wing their way home after two weeks in France and England. We have certainly had a good time with Finn, Harry, and Beckham, but we have also learned that raising children is a job for the young. The days have been filled with DVDs, playing with cousins in the mud and elsewhere, chickens, cleaning Uncle's new cellar, forts, meals, walks, family dinners, snacks, baths, stories, some heavy-duty coughs, and goodness knows what all else.

A bit of mud from day two at Holden's mud hole

Time for lunch!

First the real food, and then Grammy's cookies

They made forts of Stephen and Ann's boxes

The boxes are better than the original contents

Two years old today

This evening we had a mini celebration of Beck's birthday to be followed on Saturday with something more official and also inclusive of a Maren's and my birthdays. Good times still to come.

That's all for now.

OXO

D.