It rained this morning. I like when the windows are open at night when it’s raining like it also was last night. Tim did something to the outside of the house to where he rerouted the gutter so the water wasn’t just pooling outside of the boys room. He dug a trench and buried tubing so that the water drains into the woods. We lost power for a few hours the other night because the winds snapped a power line.

It is a little weird having a child come home who’s been gone for a while. Not in a bad way, just that you’ve adjusted and things have changed since they left. Even in two months the dishes system was different. I still have pangs of sharper emotion following exchanges where feel again I’m living in this new different. Sunday he asked to go to Laura’s after church and planned to spend the rest of the day there.

It’s happened every time he’s come home so far, where something hurts from the scab of his leaving getting scraped off. But like I said, I am at peace and feel that too, and of course I am always glad when he’s home. The high school was having a fundraiser tonight selling chicken dinners. Josh had ordered eight of them, so we had one extra that was split amongst the dinner eaters. It was a nice meal shared.