Adventures in La La Land

1. We finally  got to go back to church last week! Woohoo!!! I think it's been something like 12 weeks since the last time we were in the church building. Of course, it wasn't back to business as usual. We had three services instead of two and were asked to register ahead of time for our preferred service so as to keep numbers down each hour. The rows were spread out, we were asked to keep 3 chairs between families, and mask-wearing was strongly encouraged.  Lucy was there, too, but believe it or not, she didn't want to be part of the family pic. Oh yeah, that's the other change to church services post Covid: no children's classes. 😭 Some people are enthusiastic proponents of keeping their kids in the service. I am not one of those people. Lol. I wasn't concerned about the girls, but fully anticipated Levi running in circles around the auditorium screaming, "My buns are itchy!!" He surprised me by how well he did. There was some running up and down ou...

1. Last Sunday, after what was hopefully our last  sermon-at-home, we decided to go on a family fishing trip. We trekked up to my brother's house on a lake and rolled out our sweet fishing skillz. We forced Lucy to come, but she sat up on the hill away from us the whole time. Sigh. We actually didn't have much luck with the fish anyway. Justin caught one fish, but the rest of us struck out. It was a beautiful day, though, and at least some of us had fun! 2. On Tuesday morning, I was helping Levi off the toilet at like 10 a.m. when I noticed something on his back. I thought it was a fuzzy, so I plucked it off without a thought, and was astonished to find this in my palm: Here's the thing, people. I grew up in the country. We played in grass that was taller than our heads. We climbed trees and ran through wildflowers and rolled in the dirt and I never  remember being checked for ticks when we came back inside. I didn't know that was a thing until I had...