Hey y'all -
As a "non-essential" Forest Service employee, your dad is still furloughed, which is irritating. Not as exasperating as having a kid in Head Start who can't go to school, or being a mom in North Carolina who relies on food stamps that aren't being distributed any more this month, but still.
Some good has come of this process, though: your dad has had lots of extra time to play with you guys, and it seems he and Laney especially are hitting it off these days.
Right now, those two are really into playing this World War II aviator video game together.
Laney steers the plane and Dad shoots at the Axis enemy. Or maybe it's the other way around. I don't know. I DO know that if they were really WWII-era pilots and the outcome of the war depended on their aviation abilities, we would all need to start practicing our German, schnell.
You guys (and Hagen) have been on a hike together every day this week.
This is as much for Ella as it is for y'all. Ella's been receiving laser treatments (crazy, I know) for her arthritis, and one of the things the vet suggested is that she go on a long walk every day to keep her legs limber.
Thor has to lift her into and out of the car, and she doesn't run around like she used to, but she seems happy to be going on adventures again.
When Laney was smaller, and everything was, "NO! MOM DO IT!!" I used to tell your dad, "You just wait. The tide is going to turn one day, and you're going to be the awesome one, while I become the irritating one who brushes her hair and makes her eat broccoli."
And I was right.
Love,
Mom
* Of course, Hagen has been along on all of these outings, too, but he was already pretty firmly in the "pro-Dad" category. In general, Hagen isn't what anyone would describe as a "tough crowd."
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