For dinner on Black Friday, we hosted our daughter’s boyfriend’s entire family for a cookout and minigolf (on the 9-hole course we built for her 16th bday a few years back).

It went great! Beautiful, wonderful family, but that’s not what this entry is about.

The four of us (me, my Dearest, the daughter, AND the boyfriend!) cleaned like crazed whirlwinds for a few days before the big First Meeting Event. We ate outside under the gazebo, because it was in the 70’s here that day. Then we roasted marshmallows and starburst in the firepit, and then they all played golf while eating cotton candy. After about 4 hours, when everyone had had enough fun, they trooped back through the house and left.

No one even used the bathroom.

Oh well! The house has been nice and clean all week and if we can keep it that way, I will be able to move on to fulfilling other goals.