It's been a great day in the roller coaster of life. My sister-
in-law is visiting with her two kids, and my brother is coming
out in a few days to join them. My kids and their cousins 
spent the day playing, and we spend the evening by the creek
catching crawdads until dark. 

I also recently finished a pre-matriculation program for an
online degree that I wanted to finish up. The pre-matriculation
program was a one-year program, and was relatively time 
consuming with kids, family life, and work. I'm glad to have
that thing finished with and out of the way, can't wait
to get to more writing and other projects.