Great visit with Megan and Booker

We had a great time in Florida with Megan and Booker this week! We got to attend time with them at a resort they stayed at. Megan did the big "sex of the baby" reveal in the photo in front of the castle, which was awesome! Another little girl is on the way.

It was great to share in our granddaughter's first visit to Disney World with them and Booker's mom. Grace was so cute taking it all in, and was especially precious when she got to visit with Cinderella while wearing a matching princess dress. It was amazing! 

We also enjoyed the water park, a beach visit, the Kennedy Space Center, and just spending time with family. 

I'm very proud of how Megan and Booker are doing. Great week! 

Enjoyed the eclipse

Sue and I enjoyed the solar eclipse from the comfort of our deck. I bought cheap eclipse glasses earlier this year and sent some to the kids last month. Hopefully they got to use them! 

It was cool to see it get darker and to hear the birds getting louder like they do in the mornings and evenings. And it got noticeably cooler at the peak occlusion of the sun. 

Fun to see another one like this! 

 

We were thrilled to welcome home Megan and Booker's daughter (our granddaughter) this past week up at their house. Grace Rose Riddick was born 6+ week early but was able to leave the hospital in good health after a few days. Sue and I spent much time holding and rocking our granddaughter, so much so that Megan commented that Grace was having trouble sleeping in her basinet on night 3 at home because of all the holding we were doing LOL. I can't wait to really spoil her :-)

Good visit with Megan and Booker

We had a good visit with our daughter and son-in-law this week. They flew down from Pennsylvania last week and stated our house. The biggest goal for the week was just to relax and we did a lot!  I took a couple of days off from work so we could stuff together. We went to the farmer's market and bought all the stuff for a crab boil, then had a crab boil in our garage because it was cold and rainy that night. The crab boil was delicious even though it was raining outside and we had to do it in our garage. That was a lot of fun! 

We enjoyed taking them to church Sunday and then having our traditional pizza on Sunday night while watching a couple of episodes of The Mandalorian.  We went to the aquarium one day, too.

We enjoyed having them and are looking forward to future visits, either down here or up there in Pennsylvania. Fun!

Handling the corona virus panic well

As the efforts to slow the spread of this "new" virus infecting humans continue we are handling things well. Sue continues to interpret for clients, Kevin is doing online high school for the end of his senior year, Stephen is doing online classes at LeeU, and I am on another weird schedule the FAA has come up with to minimize the impact of one of our controllers testing positive for the corona virus. (I think my schedule is just a plot to make the senior guys like me work all evenings and weekends :-)

Life is good. We continue to look for ways to help people. It's fun to see everyone finally embracing online things and ways of doing business and church the way I've suggested for years. And it's fun to watch everyone at work scramble to use the online tools that I've been encouraging all along despite them poo-pooing my suggestions.

I'm looking forward to when we come out of this time of panic into a more normal life and the absolute statements of "never again" and "we'll always" lessen. The strident commentary is sad and disappointing knowing that as Americans and humans we've survived stuff like this before and we'll overcome this new variable in our lives.

And I'm looking forward to seeing how people take the new opportunities that are being presented as a chance to grow and adapt. Good stuff ahead!

Happy birthday, Sue!

Sue celebrates another year today - woohoo! Be sure and give her a call, text, email, FB messenger, or whatever method you use to communicate...

Happy Chinese New Year!

Since we had Owen as an exchange student we have enjoyed celebrating Chinese New Year as a new tradition in our home. 2020 is the year of the rat, so it should be an interesting year.

Happy Chinese New Year!