Once you stop trying to make it a continuance of Goodtimes past, once you realize it is a different animal all together, you settle in and enjoy the new show.
Beverly and Barry in bonsai garden.
Chris hung out for a little while.
There was a spot, around 3:16, when I checked the clock and remembered Goodtimes past ---- when dress up clothes and craft materials and toys and glitter would have been all over the house, stem to stern.
We could almost dispense with playground duty, except that I like for the aunts and uncles to give the kids some attention, and I like the kids to be here so that I can visit with them.
Barry and Beverly spent quite a while in the bonsai garden together. He used to be diving or out in the shop or something during Goodtimes, but he is around more now.
Chris came about mid-afternoon and hung out for a little while.
Chris stopped at Waffle House with Shawn and Tyler, and Tyler got permission to come on home when he was finished eating.
Faith and I got to visit some, and then we played Jenga. And then we played Jenga with John and Kennedy and Papa. I'll have to remember that she likes Jenga.
We set up to play RISK but when Tyler got here they all ran out to the fledgling tree fort. Later Michael, Daniel, Tyler, Skyler, and Noah set it up in the dining room, and you could hear them laughing and talking about it.
Barry put on "Little Big Kids," and some of us enjoyed watching that together.
Goodtimes has almost completely morphed from its original --- a time where couples knew they could have a babysitter, and where cousins could play without too much grown up interference. Half of this centuries kids are siblings, and so already spend quite a bit of time together. It is true that Tyler, Skyler, and Noah are different in the mix, and if this were the starter group I would probably be seeing it that way. Just so different from the starter group. But, more and more I am realizing that and instead of trying to keep it the same, letting it a loose to be its own new thing.
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