Joe's Visit

In the midst of all this drama with my Dad's help, we have a welcome visitor staying with us in our home> Alicia's youngest brother Joe is visiting from Canada for a month. He arrived yesterday much to the elation of our visitor hungry children. The last time we had one of Alicia's brothers with us for an extended period, he got really bored and ended up leaving way early. This time, Joe has to deal with just the opposite - five little kids running around, very excited to spend any time possible with him. If anything, we won't be bored, he'll be overwhelmed while he's here.

But we're hoping that he'll enjoy this trip despite the adjustment of going from a home where you're the youngest of a quiet house with no other siblings, to a place where five little people are boisterously running around the house every day like Oompa Loompas. Hope he survives.

But tonight as a nice kick-off to his trip. We participated in a Canada Day parade through out neighborhood. We had out car decked out with baloons and maple leaf shapes and the whole family got into throwing candy to kids on the side of the road.