Goodbye Sweet Summer

Although it was sheer chaos around this house for the last weekend, I felt a little pang of sadness to wake up this morning and have it be silent...all visiting family and friends gone. It's been a long time since we've had so many family members in Michigan together, and I was especially sad to see Travis and Garrett go.

The weekend ended with a bang because after much persuasion, anger, threats, promises and tears the boys finally granted Kristin and I permission to play basketball with them and their friends. It was the highlight of my weekend when we finished playing and Garrett said, "Girl - you were ballin' out there." Really, you can't get higher praise from him. So of course all the pain it took to get there was forgiven. Another glass ceiling broken through for women everywhere. ;)

Steve insisted we end the Labor Day barbque with a picture of him holding Aviva and showing how much she enjoyed it. Why? So that he could rub it in Travis' face:



Because.. poor Travis pulled a scare tactic on Aviva early in his visit that made her effectively scream and cling to the nearest person in fear whenever he came around after that. Maybe he'll learn a lesson...don't scare babies, or they'll even turn to Steve.

As Abram said before grace: Good People, Good Food, Good times. A great weekend all in all.

For the Labor day crew: more pics from the weekend posted to
silentspinsterstories.blogspot.com