We were so excited to have Clark and Swathi, and their kids Soren and Meera visit us today! Amazingly, they left their house near Seattle at 3:30 yesterday, and drove straight and arrived at our house at 6 in the morning. They drove through the night. What superstars!
After they arrived, they caught some rest while Lily and I kept an eye on the kids, but the soon joined us. I had the day off of work, so I got to just enjoy being around. In the morning, Lily and I each did a stationary bike workout, and Lily did some yoga.
The kids all played so wonderfully together. Lydia woke up super early because she was so excited to have her relatives arrive. And everyone was just so happy together. Also, a lot of the kid-friendly updating that Lily has done to the house lately really got some good use. Here is Lily reading one of the new books she recently purchased for the home (at least I assume this is one of the new ones.)
I think it was while I was doing the stationary bike that Lily had all the kids do Cosmic kids Yoga. It’s an awesome program on Amazon that has fun stories the kids act out in yoga poses. Meera lifting her little leg in one of the below pictures is so cute, it’s almost too much for me to handle! Also, here is a video of them doing yoga.
The kids also spent time in the sandbox and also playing with various toys around the house. They played so so so well together!
For dinner, we had grain bowls. It felt like we had a thousand ingredients, and I was in heaven. Lily jokes that ever since I started my diet of not snacking, meals have become much more impressionable for me, and I talk about them a lot. She says when we walk at night, I spend the first twenty minutes digesting my dinner out-loud to her, Lol! Well, this was certainly a dinner of that (and yes, I did digest it out-loud to her on our walk and before).
Here are some pictures of everyone eating together.
After dinner, most everyone found our way to the girls room to experience the forts the girls were building.
Mary and Ammon each fell asleep in their forts at bedtime. Ammon eventually moved to Lydia’s bed, which was empty because Lydia was sleeping with me and Lily because she was terrified of an image she couldn’t get out of her head that she saw in the “Tale of Unfortunate Events” series she was watching (I think it was a snake or something).
We are so excited to have Clark, Swathi, Soren and Meera with us! It was a day of pure fun, and I’m glad we get to have them for another week!
I also forgot to mention that I had an appointment with Mary for her eye exercises and I had my last appointment with Mary Lou. I told her that I’m in a really good place now, but that she helped me to cross a chasm. I really feel that. She was my emotional guide as I passed from the first half of my life to my second. I will be forever grateful to her.