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Costco burger is the best. I'm sad we sold our grill so early in the clean out process, I miss a good grilled burger!

Nice you will have a room at your friends vacation honey. We are hoping friends will want to come and visit us in FL.

Hope your aunt heals okay. Not much can be done for broken ribs I'm afraid.

Super adorable pumpkins! I agree with DD, y'all are looking great!

Liz you and DH are skinny pumpkins! You look great. Your nickel experiment seems to be paying off. Very clever of you to figure that out.

CC wise to invest in your roof. Who knew water would be a problem in Arizona. I'm very paranoid abou****er damage too. My family claims I am a water witch and and draw water to us in both good and bad ways.

The day started with distressing news. My special Aunt fell this morning when she was getting up to use the bathroom. An ambulance brought her to the local ER. She broke 5 ribs, so they have transferred her to a hospital in a bigger city (Springfield). I'm waiting to hear more about what her recovery will look like. We feel like we might need to go check in with them in November, regardless of how long she is in the hospitial, or if she will need to be in a rehab facility. I don't know what kind of follow up care breaking that many ribs requires, but i'm guessing it's very painful right now, and she is probably taking some big time painkillers right.

So when we were leaving for coffee DH said, hmm, I'm going to take this office chair and donate it today. (It's been in the garage forever). So I was wrong, something was leaving the garage. Except not really. When he tried to donate it, they said, normally we would take it, but the chair display area is full right now. So, the chair is back in our garage. Fate can be a cruel mistress sometimes.

After coffee we did our Costco trip.It was pretty busy on Monday. The store was filled with jaunty seniors, just like us. : )

We had a nice dinner with our friends. They surprised us by showing us pictures of a vacation home they bought in a super cute tourist town in southern Minnesota. Lots of artisans and biking in the area. DH and I have stayed at a B and B is this town before, and really enjoyed it. They showed us a picture of what will be "your bedroom" as they called it. Sweet.

Well kitchen duties are calling. I bought a package of ground beef at Costco, which needs to be broken down into one pound bags. A loathsome task, but well worth it because it's $2.00 cheaper a pound than my local grocery, and better quality. These are things I have time for now.

My kids were born in 1992 and 1995. They didn't have phones until high school (dd) and middle school (ds). Their first phones didn't have cameras, and you had to text by using the number pad. MySpace was a thing, but neither of them were into it. The level of anxiety in my students seemed to skyrocket around 2010. Snap Chat and other social media platforms fuel the fire. OMG. I'm glad my kids mostly didn't grow up with that, and that DS in particular loved to be outside on all his various wheels: bike, scooter, roller blades, skateboards. Lots of teachers were reading and recommending this book, I might take a look at it.

My kids are 52, 37, and 34, so possibly older? Cellphones were around when they were teenagers but they weren't smartphones - they could just make/receive calls on them. Helicopter parents were just starting to be present during the middle daughter's late teenage years and I wasn't one of them. When my oldest went to college orientation the parents stayed home. When the 37 year old went she asked if I was coming and I was totally surprised to be invited. I went but had a hard time understanding the need of some of the other parents to want to continue to be involved in everything. Also my kids (even the youngest) grew up playing outside with the neighborhood friends. No online game playing and no messaging until they were in their 20's. There was email but not the constant back and forth.