Jack of Harts

I had family staying over at my house the last few days. One of my cousins drove up to Minnesota for the first time in a minute or three. The last time I saw him was two years ago when I drove down to Kansas for the funeral of his father.

My Mom setup a guest bed many years ago for family to sleep in when they came into town. It has served as handy storage for Transformers since I moved into Mom’s house, so I spent the Friday and Saturday before family arrived building some storage in a part of the basement I had long planned for that purpose, and then moving the Transformers onto it. Then it was time to launder bedding and towels and all the other things you do when family is coming. I also of course did a round of clearing, sorting things into the keep, donate, and trash piles and dealt with that. Every time I turned around, I saw something else I could do to make the house ready for another person to live in for a bit.

Then it was time to wait for family to arrive. I got some time off work and we spent time together. We ate at some nice restaurants. We had some A&W root beer. I made cornbread. He made coffee and tea in my Keurig. We watched some TV and some movies. We talked about God and politics. We did the things that family does. And then he went on to spend time with other family and I went to bed to get ready to go back to work. It is good to spend time with family, and I’m glad I jumped at the chance to get to do it.