June 21st is Sean’s birthday. It also happened to be Father’s Day, also First Day of Summer, and the longest day of the year. Being in Wisconsin during the summer solstice is wonderful because you can still see the sunset at 10pm. I love that. We spent Sean’s celebration at a water park, had a nice picnic and sang the birthday song. Little did I know that my dear husband liked the park as much as the kids! It is great to see your spouse run up a hill to get in line to go down a slide. Between the three of us adults, we managed to get all the kids on rides, take them down water slides, pass babies back and forth, change diapers, hand out snacks and put band-aids on scraped toes.
That night at the campground we grilled, sat by the fire and I took out my guitar. Crickets chirped a nice accompaniment to my strumming of the chords. The children’s faces glowed in the firelight as they roasted marshmallows. Fionn managed to catch every marshmallow on fire. They started waving flaming marshmallows around like sparkler fireworks and it was time to take their sticks away. It’s all fun and games until someone has a burnt marshmallow in the eye.
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