Thursday

Today was good but also hard too. An elderly man in our neighborhood died on Sunday and his viewing was last night and the funeral was today. The girls and I took over breakfast for the family and then I went to the funeral this morning. It made me think of my dad so much. I spent the rest of the day going through pictures that I have printed out of my mom and of susanbaby... the mom pictures going to my siblings and the susanbaby pictures going to Chris' parents and Ms. Inez. I found some pictures of dad just about a week before they were in the car accident. One of them was me and him. I miss my dad.

I thought today about intentional and was trying to think my way through how I could possibly have any kind of regularity to a family meal with Chris' schedule. I would love for him to eat with us, but Zach doesn't get home from swim practice until 5:30-5:45 so either Chris or Zach would be excluded.

Maybe we could eat at 5:15 on the nights Chris is working nights and Wednesdays and eat at 6:00 on his days off. When he is working days we will miss him altogether... so that would average over a 4 week cycle 20 days out of 28 days. Zach could make the meals 11 out of 20 times and could be late 9 out of 20 family meals. On day shift the rest of us would eat together without Chris for a total of 28 meals.