It’s been nice to have some sunshine over the past day or two. From what I heard, people were up until anywhere between 1 and 3AM. Josh came to bed around 1 and I woke up enough to ask, “Are the boys in bed?”, to which he answered “yes”. We woke up again to the alarm that was set so we could get egg bakes in to give them enough time to heat through. I feel like freezing food takes some of the flavor out of it.

The rest of the day was a nice mixture of everybody doing their own thing. The sister who normally provides the structure for the activities and serves as the voice of direction for everybody communicated that she did not have the bandwidth to do that or think about that this year. So I think a few people are noticing and missing that but we are making it work. We’ve all had our years where we did not have the bandwidth.

I don’t know what else to mention. The kids are getting older so they all stay up later. It has to be overwhelming for people who aren’t used to it. I did get a feeling like we needed to be more strict with the gaming time. My brother went in and told them to turn things off at 10PM, which they did. I want them to have other memories besides that for their holidays. I’ve learned that it’s good to just enjoy the time together.