Visitorific

Everyone came last week. Molly and Eric and Ian came to visit. Emily's family came to visit. Our Missouri volunteers came to visit. All at once. We had many people in the house. It was awesome.

The Alspaughs wound up only able to stay for a day, due to a family emergency. They'll be back soon, though, and when they do come back, they're just going to stay at our place rather than getting a hotel. And, perhaps we'll get to go see a Cubs game. Eric started talking about that when we very first moved to Chicago four years ago. When Ian was 2. He's 6 now. Did I mention that? What a neat little kid.

They came over for dinner with everyone on Thursday night, and when they left, the first thing Tim (Missouri volunteer) said was, "That is one smart kid." Michelle was excited to see him reading so much. She has a brother the same age, so she knows little kids better than me. And what an imagination!

One of the Missouri volunteers was a housemate of ours last year, so John and Michael and I were especially happy to see him. Little reunions. How awesome. Made me very happy.

Coming up next is a visit from Trevor and Lena. Haven't seen them in years. They're passing through Chicago this week on the way to ... ... somewhere else, to see someone else. Dunno. It'll be awesome though. Trevor is one of Michael''s friends from back in elementary school. So, you know. Good times.

In the meantime, still waiting for April 5. That's the big day where everything becomes official for what's happening in the fall. Next Thursday. Oh my god.