We did a thing today. Yesterday, we went to look at a lake house in a nice rural community that feels very out in the country. It is actually 3 miles from the interstate, and in 15 to 20 minutes, we can be at a good hospital in the same system that we are in now, dozens of grocery stores, eating establishments, and several shopping malls. It is the best of both worlds and also 1.5 hours closer to where we live than our current lake house. It already has the extra bathrooms that we need when everyone is there, and it has a large room that the boys can put cots or blow-up mattresses in if we all get together. The lake is even more pristine and beautiful. We were going to build something like that onto our current lake house because there is nowhere to put extra people when the beds are all full. We made an offer on it today. It has a few flaws, but it was worth almost what they were asking. We made an offer today, so we shall see. The only fly in the ointment is that there is a real estate agent who wants to view it to flip. I hope he can't afford to offer them a lot more than they are asking just to flip. Crossing my fingers that we get it. Sure it needs paint and some upgrades but it so fits our needs for the whole family and is closer to all of us.

Our son had to bring some things over tonight that he forgot last night and do some things to his son's truck, getting ready for him to start driving. He got to our house just as I was putting dinner on the table. Since he hadn't eaten, he stayed to eat with us. Enjoyed seeing him two days in a row.

Today is our daughter's anniversary.

My oldest grandson called today and talked for over an hour until he got called out to a job. It is so nice that the grandchildren near drop by frequently, and the ones that don't still call and talk to us.

Our son-in-law got a new job. I hope that it turns out to be something that he likes. I am just grateful that he got away from that overly stressful job that he was working at. It almost took a toll on him.