Good day for Devan

Yay for Aunt Keely! She saved the day and just made this town much more appealing to Devan. She found a skate park right here in Franklin! It's not great. It doesn't have a good flow to it but it is a skate park. Even the worst skate park is better than no skate park. I think it is across the street from the school he will be attending.

It is one year today that the kids lost their brother.

It was 95 degrees today. We spent a couple hours in the pool. It felt great.

Devan and I did explore Franklin a little more as we were trying to find the skate park. I basically know two roads here so I use those roads as my guideposts. So far, they are both major roads so they pretty much lead me to where I've wanted to go.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows comes out tomorrow. Jordan and I are excited. If the book had taken any longer to be released, we would not be interested. I think J.K. Rowling took slightly too long to release the series, she nearly lost a generation of readers. Jordan is almost too old to want to continue reading them. Luckily it's the last one so she does want to finish the series out.

I just read Mrs. Mike by Benedict and Nancy Freedman. It was an interesting story based on life in the Canadian wilderness. Kind of a love story, but not a sappy gooey love story, more like what kind of love grows by living in those conditions. The other book I read was Expecting Adam by Martha Beck. It is the story of a family coming to terms with the fact that they are going to have a baby with Downs Syndrome. Both very good books. Out of my usual fictional genre. Both wrought with emotion in different ways. I would highly recommend both. Reading Murder on the Orient Express now.

BTW (by they way) you can leave comments on these, there is a place to do that if you feel moved to do so. :)

-K