We have enjoyed having some visitors recently. Two weekends ago my friend Susan brought her two boys for a little visit. Gabriel & Iris made friends quickly.
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| Gabriel and Iris taking a photo break. |
This past weekend Evan's parents came out to help work on the house. They stayed very busy -- as is the custom of their people -- doing several days' worth of work on each day.
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| Teresa cutting trim and baseboard. |
The good news for them is that I think they've had more time to play with Iris this time than last time they visited.
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| Montie & Iris |
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| Iris learning how to fly |
We took Teresa & Montie to the Denver Botanic Gardens on Sunday afternoon. Teresa has a deep love of flora and so this visit was more educational than previous visits. The weather was completely gorgeous for their entire visit but we are likely to have snow again soon.
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| Morgans at the Denver Botanic Gardens |
We have even more visits in store. My dad arrives today for a short visit to see Iris and to give me some time to work on my dissertation proposal. The Morgans will return for an early Thanksgiving in a couple weeks and then my mom is coming for the month of December so I can work on my dissertation proposal.
It has been fun to have all these visitors around. Iris loves being with people and is very happy to have more playmates.
It is a great gift to have our family members give us their time, particularly since it is the thing that Evan and I most sorely lack -- free time for self-care or for relationship maintenance or sleep. We couldn't have survived without all those gifts of time. I suggested to Evan that we not buy each other Christmas gifts this year since the work on the house has been eating up most of our extra money. Really, we need free time to spend together more than anything else. Perhaps we'll just have a "perishable gifts only" rule. We don't need more dust-collecting stuff, but we could do with a box of oranges, for example.
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