School holidays are well and truly in full swing.

A slow paced busy – ness that comes from having a house full of children

all day,

every day.

We do not rush to get up.

There is no routine,

no have to be somewhere by a certain time

and yet it is noisy and messy and sometimes overwhelming

as the children settle into living with each other full time again.

I wonder if all homes go through this settling in phase,

a time where there is a clash of personalities

that settles midway

so that by the end of the Summer

they can all get along

and then you miss it when the school year starts,

long for it, somehow.

We have been lying low.

The girl has been a mess of pain and exhaustion and tears

(and there is so much to tell, so much to write about)

but last weekend,

all of us,

with a large dose of cabin fever

decided to brainstorm and come up with ideas of things to do.

Many will not be accomplished,

many unobtainable pipe dreams for now.

Funds,

timing

and limitations due to the PICC line

will prevent certain things

but

we will give it our best shot -

it’s all we can do.

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