Our time in Tucson continues to be fun and rewarding.  Jodi's parents came for a week.  They were lots of fun to have around.  Jodi's mom, Sandy, helped out with school and kid sitting, and her dad Terry worked at CHRPA for a day to check it out.  Considering all the snow days that our kids make sure we know they are missing, they skipped a couple of days here and went on a couple of museum field trips with Jodi and the grandparents.

 

  

Prior to Jodi's parents coming, the director of CHRPA had the idea of having me teach school with the kids and have Jodi go out with CHRPA for a day.  I told him that was a terrible idea.  The educational and psychological damage of me schooling the kids would likely take weeks to reverse.  But we did take him up on the idea of having our whole family go out for a day.

CHRPA built a wheelchair ramp for an older lady (and very friendly boxer) that recently lost her husband.  The Miller family wasn't up for building the ramp, but painting was right at our skill level.  We may not have been the most efficient painters, but we all had a great time doing it.  We also enjoyed a nice burger lunch during the 1 ½ hours it took the primer to dry.  It doesn't take long in a desert.

The kids did such a good job, maybe they should graduate to doing the under the mobile home work instead of me!  Yesterday we found a smelly dead cat under one . . . hey, kids like cats, right?

Hope all is well up North.

Eric, Jodi, Julia, and Nathan.