Reflections from Crumbly Acres: The kids visted!

First: Happy anniversary to us! Grampa brought the steam ship model upstairs. It was a gift from another year.

The day of our wedding, Aug. 22, 2002, we were married on my parent's front lawn, and all 9 if us took a dinner cruise.

I was gifted 23 roses! They are beautiful! They looked even better the next day.

The kids arrived after work on Friday, bringing pesto sauce, spaghetti, a salad. This was our farewell before school begins. Jordan is off to Queens University on the 30th. (Astrophysics!) He's in residence, in a bedroom+ (AKA Can+), which means he and his 'roommate' have rooms on either side of a shared bathroom.

Things sure have changed. The family has a two-hour window to move new students in, with 5 minutes in a special parking spot to unload stuff. They have been given maps to get show their routes to campus, with specific roads they are to take. It's quite organized. Classes begin Sept. 2nd!

Aster is going into gr. 10. She starts Sept. 2nd, as well. Band, French, guitar, math, and she's anxiously waiting to get her schedule. She took an online summer course (Careers and Civics), in order to have room in her schedule for guitar in first semester. She's been playing on her own, and has motivated me to play my autoharp. (My piano has to go to the dump soon!)

Grampa gave Jordan his vintage 1972 Queens U. tie!

I decided to put on my wedge sandals! They don't compare with the grandies boots... We were headed out to say a final goodbye, and take more photos, I needed some height.

Jordan tied his tie himself. His voice has changed with his trans treatments. He's taking hormones, Grampa is taking anti-andigens! Grampa's voice hasn't changed. Thankfully! One of them is getting more hair, the other is losing it. We think it is rather funny. Hooray for science, though.