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Chris has been gone to MN for 10 days with Jack and Kathryn. They drove back to spend the 4th of July with family. I don't have any photo's since last time we went our camera was sadly dropped. I have been home alone for the last 10 days. I don't know that I have ever been home alone in the last 22 years although Chris would argue in the early 90's he left me over night while he camped with Becky and baby Mary. That is long enough ago that I don't remember the joy of having time to myself to do what ever I want. I actually had 4 days off work in a row and kept myself so busy cleaning, painting and going through stuff I hardly sat down. Still it was great to get lots of stuff done. I also exercised everyday, which was awesome and I feel great. I was hoping to really feel the benefits of that so I can motivate myself to keep it up. I must admit I was never bored or lonely for the whole 10 days because I talked to Chris on the phone constantly. The kids were way to busy to talk to me and the few times we did talk they were obviously being inconvenienced.
Chris started the drive home to Montana on Saturday and decided to drive straight through, they were going to camp along the way and it was raining so they just kept going. Kathryn climbed in bed with me at 2 am and it was a welcome surprise! I am equally as happy to have them back as I was to get some alone time. I snuck off to church alone this morning so they could sleep in. When I got home Kathryn was dressed as a princess and her beautiful room was a disaster she had on high heels, jewelry, a crown, a lovely princess dress and she smiled at me and said "I hope you don't mind I borrowed some lipstick". The lipstick was all over her lips and made her smile a little larger then normal. Chris and Jack were still out cold.
We have had a relaxing Sunday. The temperature has finally warmed up and the weeks of rain have stopped. It is 85 and sunny.
Kathryn and I walked down to our fenced in garden plot that we didn't plant this year. It has weeds as tall as Kathryn all over it. We found 4 heads of lettuce large, green and lovely growing in the weeds, they came up all on their own. So we harvested them and washed them up really good to eat this next week. It makes me sad we have been too busy to do any gardening. It's obviously easy. We also scared up 2 baby deer sleeping in the tall grass next to our garden. They were as surprised as we were. I have only seen one baby this year, I'm not sure where the other one came from. Our yard has been a little quieter this summer compared to last. I hope everyone is having a fun summer. Love Polly