Company is coming!!!!!

The Oakes Family Gathering is almost here. I really look forward to this time and seeing all of our extended family and friends. I have been working on a power point presentation of some of the genealogy stuff that I have discovered and also adding pictures to it of our ancestors. Not anything too deep. I didn't want to put everyone asleep. It's a fine line between being interesting or boring. What is exciting to me in finding our history would probably bore others to tears. I'm trying to get it right though.
Yesterday was Father's Day. Will of course had to work, but did get off early. I even cooked him supper. He had been giving me a hard time about not making REAL mashed potatoes in a long time. Just to be smart, I almost gave him a plate full of just mashed potatoes for his Father's Day supper. It would have served him right. I decided to be nice and feed him well.
Today is lawn mowing day. Will just put new blades on the mower. I am going to work with Jacob and Jessalyn while he cuts the grass. We move furniture and swingsets out of his way and then I weed eat for hours and hours and hours. Actually it's not that bad, but it's a BIG yard.
They are getting ready to add 140 boxes to my mail route. I am looking forward to the increase in pay and the chance to have a bigger route. One more addition like this and I will quite possibly have a small full time route. The bosses have been having a hard time getting everything figured out, because they have never been on the routes, so I have had to sit down and help them get it worked out. A challange that I enjoy.
Cranfest is 95 days away. I have a 15 page "to do" list for it. I and my team will start working on it the Monday after The Gathering. We have it down to a science of what to do when and where. When it works right, it works well. When things don't work right.....well let's just say "We like things to work right". So much of what I and my team do is support work for others, so we have to get it done and get it done on time.
The kids start summer enrichment classes today. It goes for two weeks. I will drop them off on my way to work and then pick them up when I am done. I think it will work out well. Then they are home for a week or two and then it's off to Bible Camp. They are really looking forward to that (so am I). They get antsy around the house. Mom is such a hard taskmaster you know. I'm such a pushover and know it.
Well, time to get gone for work and school.
God bless.
dea
John 1:17