A Visit

How can one express the joy of having family visit?  Paul and his two daughters came for a week long visit.  We were on the go the whole time.  Arne and his family met us on three of the days.  Arne took Bob, Paul and me to see La Boheme and we all greatly enjoyed the opera from the fantastic box seats Arne got us.  The cousins had good times playing creatively together at the Children's Creativity Museum in San Francisco, at the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley, at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.  We celebrated my birthday with a BBQ and cake and ice cream.  The girls created a Rock Show, creating a museum-like display of rocks Elsa brought and they found together in our yard.  The signs had both common and scientific names the girls made up.  For me it was special to teach the girls how to play the card game "Spite and Malice", a competitive double solitary.  Our sons remember my mother playing this with them on her many visits.  Now four generations have enjoyed playing this game.  It's all about enjoying each moment and creating memories I hope will last the girls' whole lives.  Maybe there is nothing so wonderful as seeing one's own children doing things we did with our children.  Life moves through our generations.