The reason behind...

Today we had visitors come over for lunch after church.  It was very pleasant.  Ron and Pam came over along with Michelle.  With this being my wife's parents and sister, she was telling me how relaxed she was about the whole thing.  This was wonderful news, as there is usually a slightly stressful atmosphere surrounding the visit of my friends to the house.  We had a wonderful time, sharing chicken, salad and a marvelous rhubarb pie made by my mother in law.

However, that conversation in the car opened up a whole new level of understanding regarding what a visit is actually for.  For all these years I had thought that having friends over was an opportunity to eat together, talk together, and maybe even play some music together.  Not so, according to this new information I was able to pick up on between the lines of my wife's relaxed approach to having her own family over.  Normally she would be stressed out for days or even weeks over the arrival of our visitors.  And what would be the cause of this stress?  It was, of course, the real reason behind having visitors over.  Because the real reason is to show them how clean your bathroom is - even the downstairs one that no one ever uses anyway.

A Bathroom - Is it clean enough?

Mowing the grass

Today, we mowed the grass. Elisha helped. He had a good time and did about half the garden.