2020: June

 Pennsylvania counties are going from yellow to green.  

Joined Edgewood pool. 

Philip lost his first tooth. 

 Clare turned 19. 

I made her a Whoopie Pie pyramid instead of a birthday cake.

That map of Pennsylvania on the wall was Andy's surprise birthday present to me.

 Andy bought me a recumbent bike/elliptical machine so I could get moving because I ache everywhere, all the time.  We gave him a statue of the Blessed Mother and grotto for Father's Day. We gave it to him a week early because I was convinced that Father's Day was the 14th instead of the 21st.

 We incubated some of Sarah's chickens' eggs and hatched six chicks the last weekend of the month.  They are, in birth order, Valerie (Regina), Fluffy (Philip), Noodles(Emily), Oliver (Noelle), Champion (Mom), and Smokey (Natalie).

Happy 19th Clare

In lieu of a birthday cake and because she is obsessed with whoopie pies, we made a whoopie pie pyramid.

In addition to the nose ring, she got herself this: