Dad, the kids, and I went down to main camp to move the tables and chairs. I went with because I wanted to go along with them. It’s been just about a week and a half since the wedding. Ethan texted me this morning to tell me he’d taken Laura to the doctor and she’d tested positive for mono. She’s been feeling pretty sick the past couple of days.

It’s not that I thought it was funny, or even that I was worried. I just had this peaceful sense of “and so it begins” and told him to let me know if there was anything I could do from here. I’ve thought a couple of times, wanting to say it at various times over the past several days, that if they need anything that we’re here. But they know this already.

So once I heard she was sick that was pretty much all I needed to make it final to me that I needed to for sure and today let the Memorial thing go. There are enough things going on that I don’t need to be adding or juggling any extra thing that don’t really need to be going on. I also got an email from a woman from church who I’d reached out to.

So I wrote the email and that was that. It was like ripping off a sticky bandaid. I’m grateful that the Lord give us access to himself where we can pray for our loved ones and comfort each other with caring words. Laura’s mom misses Laura and hadn’t heard anything since the morning time either. Her son is doing better now after his surgery.

School went well today also. I’m using this week to help my son get established in his schedule and subjects. I told him earlier I was going to do something I’d never done before in a school year–to not order a single book. So he stopped me from ordering a great geography book this morning. He saved his math for last. “Tedious but satisfying.”