Happy Father's Day

My father, God bless him, departed this life in 1994.  Today, I will lift a glass in his honor and memory.  He would have been so proud of his great-grandchildren!

Speaking of which...the children came home yesterday...er, that is to say, Meg went to Muncie to pick them up.  When they got home, I took them to the zoo so their mother could do a little shopping and work on the wallpaper stripping project.  The kids were very good.  We didn't see that many animals because we were busy eating Dippin' Dots and playing in the sprinkler area.  (I had taken a change of clothes for them.)  I brought two tired little kiddos home around 6:15.

Meg did a big stroke of business in the wallpaper stripping department yesterday.  It isn't all done but getting closer.  What's taking so long?  Consider the walls of a room covered in nice vinyl wallpaper.  Then consider that the wallpaper comes off a couple of inches at a time.  Spray, scrape, rip...spray, scrape, rip...(repeat) ad nauseum.  After the paper is all off comes filling holes, smoothing, etc., in prep for paint.  That should get done fairly early this week, if Meg can pick out a paint color that she likes.  We are painting the ENTIRE room, including trim and ceiling. 

Last evening, we brought a box spring and mattress to the house out of storage and plopped it on the floor in my new room so Robin and I could each have our own places to sleep.  (We do have a bed offer but won't need that yet.)  The children greeted my new room as if it were a huge play area.  Well...what do you expect?  It's the only room in the house with any space to it!

Today, Meg and the children are having breakfast with Meg's father and wife here in Plainfield, and this afternoon, we are attending a luau party that Nathan's parents have been planning since their return from their Hawaiian trip last winter.   It should be a nice Father's Day for the men in the grandchildren's families. 

And if you are a daddy, Happy Father's Day to you!!