A Full Summer Day

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1 dad home before deployment

1 visiting uncle

1 lawnmower

1 weed whacker

One 15-passenger van

14 people

1 birthday

2 trips to the beach

16 hot dogs 

8 grilled chicken breasts

2 salmon steaks

3 bags of asparagus risotto

2 lbs of broccoli

1 ice cream, birthday cake

2 half gallons of ice cream

2 loads of after-dinner dishes

15 teenagers playing soccer in the street after dark

1 movie

1 late-night round of fresh squeezed lemonade

1 queen-sized inflatable mattress

4 extra people, sleeping, scattered throughout my house

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This is what yesterday looked like at the Lang house.  This morning I’m moving through a quiet house, full of sleeping people and picking up the remnants of what the girls found to do after I’d already gone to bed.  I turned off the movie that had been playing all night, wiped up the stickiness from the lemonade they’d made and started load 3 of the dishes from last night. 

I love summer!

Have a great day~

5 Comments

  1. Comment by Gellie:

    Quite a day! But it sounds like it was a lot of fun! Hope today is even better. I love you!

  2. Comment by Maggie:

    Love it! Remember it. Miss it. xoxoxo

  3. Comment by Jane:

    Summer rocks!

  4. Comment by Clay:

    You are going to have to strike the “1 queen-sized inflatable mattress.”

    Its those days I am going to miss the most

  5. Comment by Pilar Hari:

    I am EXHAUSTED just reading that. Holy Moly!
    Hats off dear.

    Miss you,
    P

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