It’s fairly late on Friday evening the day after Thanksgiving. We’re having a good time in New Wilmington. This afternoon Kirk built a bonfire in the back yard to cook dinner. It was dang cold, but a lot of fun being outside around the campfire. We ended up cooking the hot dogs, brats, and hash potatoes on the campfire and then eating inside. There are some twenty people congregated here for the weekend and Spencer’s baptism tomorrow afternoon. We’ve had a lot of fun, lots of conversation, and lots of noise.

Today was bright and sunny … and cold. The temps maybe got into the mid twenties. The kids had a great time outside sledding down the small hill in the back yard. Madison had no sooner gone outside than she was back inside bleeding and bordering on hysterical. She had fallen and split open her chin in the same place as her bicycle accident last year. She needed to go to the emergency room, of course, and get stitches, of course, and that was not what she wanted to do today. Five stitches later, she’s now the wounded soldier and feeling rather sorry for herself. That was the major event for the day.

Tomorrow afternoon is Spencer’s baptism and then people start leaving. We’ll head for the Cleveland airport on Sunday about 11 a.m. to get folks there for their flights. I expect that the airport will be very crowded. The trip is coming to an end far too quickly. It will be nice to be home for a while. Our daughter does have a cablemodem and broadband access, so I made the early trip to Staples this morning because they had a Netgear wireless router and firewall on sale. That’s now installed and all of us can now be online at the same time — Nina with her laptop, James with his tablet, and me with my notebook along with Dawnmarie on her regular computer. It’s quite nice. Every home should be set up like this!!