Happy Things from Home

• Craig and Clyde both driving an hour to the airport to pick me up late at night
• Seeing Craig for the first time in more than a year!!!
  
• Clyde trying to find my biceps: "Flex . . . Are you flexing?!" "I have no muscles, Clyde." (Craig: "You have NO muscles?")
• Clyde telling me (again) exactly what to get him for graduation
  
• A good ol' New England rain storm
• Sleeping in (more than once)
• Seeing the mountain (Mt. Monadnock) again
• What Davey wrote on the thank you note to the donors to the Alumni Fruit and Extras Fund: "I love you all sooo much, whoever you are. I love food sooo much, more than you . . . ."
• Going into Keene with Craig
• Visiting with Pauline Plummer in her store
• Cleaning the kids' bathroom quite thoroughly, inducing Craig to call me a "meddling woman" for asking him to throw unused odds and ends away
• Craig, king of sacrilegiosity, asking Kayla, "Isn't your driver's ed instructor [named Victor], like, right next to God?" When she and I responded with puzzlement, he continued. "Well, the Warrior Songs says, "Jesus is victor, victor, victor . . . "
  
• Joining Facebook and receiving friend requests
• Seeing the beautiful front hall renovations
• The amazing graduation cake Mary A. made for Clyde: an edible Bible and Warrior Songbook resting on top of it, right next to an edible RedSox hat
• Walking home from the Main House in the dark, seeing the lights shine out of the dark, thinking for the zillionth time, "Fairwood is a fairyland"
• Watching Clyde open his graduation cards and gifts
• Sleeping with the windows open