Family Day Out

THIS....is a happy post.

We have two young adult daughters who live at home (paying rent), work crazy hours and have active social lives.  Adored Wife has doctor appointments and volunteer commitments, and my work for a church has some odd scheduling involved with it.  Graphics Magician's summer time calendar is actually pretty flexible when he's not occupied with his friends.

This is a roundabout way of saying that it's a little difficult to get everybody together for any length of time.  Last night (at this writing) we were all awake and in the house at the same time for about fifteen minutes, which is the only time it had happened that day.  I left the house today before anybody but the cat was awake, and by the time I get home both girls will be at work, and by the time they get home I'll probably be asleep.

So it was a tremendous pleasure the other day when NOBODY had anything scheduled for the afternoon or evening.  We went out to lunch as a family, at Cici's Pizza Buffet (the girls paid their own way), and then went to a very nice mall and just hung out together for a couple of hours.  Everybody was getting along, we were talking and laughing and having a good time.  There are issues and concerns, but we shoved them all aside and talked about movies and friends and music and jobs.

I had a blast.

No point to this, friends, just wanted to let you know that not everything in our household is challenging.  Some times the family is just fun.

Hope all's well out there, and God bless.