A week of crazy kid fun

My s-i-l, 2 kids, and the grandparents were here for a week. The formula could be one for disaster: take one house, add 4 kids (ages 5, 4, 2, almost-1), an auntie, 2 grandparents...throw in a little extra sugar, some warm weather for playing outside, not enough sleep, even a bout of coughs and fevers. Amazingly, even those conditions didn't lead to disaster but to lots of fun, and sil and I even got a 2-hour mall blitz in :) As with LCS, it's so fun to watch our kids play and giggle and talk about life.

This set of relatives grew up with lots of cousins right across the street. In our family, we weren't close to any other family members our age. Creating the conditions so that our kids can be close cousins has been really important, then, for all of us.

So here's to family--and to all of ours, both related by blood and not.