Entertaining silence

Friday, October 25, 2013

Normally our household is pretty quiet, sometimes the radio is tuned in, sometimes we have the TV turned on but a lot of the time we just enjoy the quiet. A few weekends ago we had a welcome change as our house was a flurry of activity there were nine extra people and five of them were six years old or younger, add to that three dogs and you have some noise. There were the sounds of little boys at play or at battle. There was occasionally one the little ones crying out to be fed or changed. There was laughter and loud conversation. It is always great to have the kids and grandkids come home but when they are home it is pretty hard to find quiet in the midst of the chaos. We know that our life is going to change when family comes home, we prepare for it. We plan to enjoy the commotion and we plan to rest when they are gone.

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