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Sunday, October 17, 2004
I am so spoiled.
This is a link to a news story about the freaky stuff that was going on in Yosemite the other day. Although the most horrific part wasn't known about until last night.
T came home late last night, after the arsonist's body was found and the weather made it evident that the fire suppression crew wasn't going to be needing his services. We were in the midst of a really big sleepover -- our neighbors' babysitter backed out at the last minute and they had a concert to attend, so they asked me if they could send the kids up to our house. It was fun, and a little crazy. It made me think about those dreams I used to have of having a family that size (we had six kids between three and ten here for the night, counting my two), and how different our lives would be if God had had things work out that way. Even just having that many kids at the table for a meal is an adventure and takes substantial planning. My hat is off to both my grandmothers, who dealt with that sort of thing every day.
And to the neighbor kids' mom, who brought us a dozen Krispy Kreme donuts as a thank you. Diet forsooth!
Today we had just a nice quiet lazy Sunday afternoon in the house. We're having our first rainstorm of the season, and we built a little fire, and I read an entire book (Good Hope Road by Lisa Wingate -- I recommend it. It's somewhere on a line between Jan Karon and Elizabeth Berg, if a little bit less professionally-done), and I don't know when the last time was that I read an entire book in one day. Oh, wait, it was Friday -- except that took part of early Saturday morning too -- when I read the new Maeve Binchy, Nights of Rain and Stars I think it's called -- which is a little less poetic than her usual books but still a good story. So, wow, two whole library books in one weekend, and a fire in the woodstove, and a "shooting-down" (C's phrase) rainstorm. I am just plain spoiled rotten, that's all there is to it.
