A day in the life

My brother has been involved with Revolutionary War reenactments for about 20 years. Years ago, his whole family participated, including his three kids. They are all now teenagers and hanging around campsites playing dress up is not quite their idea of fun.


Last year, Adriana's class had a character day where they chose a book and had to dress up as that character to do a presentation. When she showed me her book was about Martha Washington's mother, I made a quick phone call to my brother. He put an outfit in the mail the next day. I think she received an "A" on the report with a "great costume" comment from her teacher. Thank you, Uncle Robin!

So, Adriana was very excited when an event was being held near us and her uncle asked her to help. Since she is in fourth grade, this helped the history she has been learning to come alive. She had a great time, and I received a great workout with all the walking we did that day. Cara and Jonah went with Bruce that day to take his mother out for her birthday, so this also allowed Adriana and I to have a little one on one time.

Uncle Robin has also now helped to create a monster. She told me that she wants to go to every event that is held. Thankfully, Robin said that he only goes to about four a year now.

Whew.

That, I think we can handle.

This the same outfit that she wore last year. When she wore it last year, it went all the way to the ground.

Helping Uncle Robin with a demonstration.

She loved petting the horses that were at the event.

Let's all breathe for a moment, shall we?

Because school is out!!! (Well, for the kids anyway.) So, life has been chaotic busy lately with spring break near the end of the school year, state testing, spring sports, and the end of the school year.

Crazy, I tell you.

Just crazy.

So, let's all pause for a minute before the craziness of the summer takes over, okay? June is going to come on with a full roar in just a few days. Until then, we are going to take a few minutes to look back at our spring.

Starting here. Back in March, Bruce's younger nephew, Chip, and the very lovely Meg, were married. It was a beautiful low-country wedding on a plantation. Very romantic. Our three precious cherubs (and they were precious cherubs that day because they had been threatened within an inch of their livesencouraged to behave their best.

Here are a few pics from that day. Meg is the real photographer of the family, but she was otherwise occupied that day. So, here are a few of mine.

Cara and Jonah with their best dance moves.

Cara was relentless at trying to get Chip to dance with her.

At Bruce's other nephew's wedding a few years ago, Cara would not leave Meg alone. The fact that this time the wedding was Meg's did not deter Cara. So glad Meg loves children.

I have lamented before about the difficulty of getting three children

to stand still at the same time for a picture, haven't I?

This was about the best one of all five of us.