Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Wednesday Morning May 14th from Brandon..13 days to departure

 Well Tuesday started out much the usual with a 5'ish rollout to my routines that begin with some quiet times to honor my lord, Jesus, give thanks for another day and then to lift up several by name for comfort and healing. All seem to be holding with this post. I soon headed out to the Rec on my bike for a great workout on the pickle ball courts with all good players and made a stop at the library  on the way home for a couple new reads for while I'm here in Brandon waiting on picking up the twins from school after dropping them off in the mornings for the next couple of days.

We worked around the house packing for these two night stay overs and getting the house in order before leaving around 2:30 for Brandon. The traffic on the interstates is unbelievable even before rush hour as it was stop and go thru the Tampa area, but we made it safely which was the main thing and got here in plenty of time to pick the boys up around 4:30.

We got back to Bobby's and it was play time in and out of their nice pool and the boys had me pitching from the pool to where they could hit a sponge ball and they wore my arm out until supper time which was a favorite of everyone's. Pizza and salad and of course Nancy had made up a chocolate chip cookie batter which she of course baked a dozen or so for dessert. The boys drew and colored until it was bedtime and then Nancy read them a story after prayers were said. They are such sweet boys and love hugs. They were down around 8:30 and it wasn't long until I was down as well but sleep didn't come for a while due to a strange bed, but I rested no less. Today we will take them to school in the mornings and have the rest of the day to relax by the pool, read and whatever until we pick up Gabe at 2:30 from his school and we will feed him and the boys along with Annsley who will spent the night and then drive Gabe to school on Thursday morning and then we will take the boys to school and come back to pack before heading to Seminole, LATER