We Finally Got to Meet our New Grandson!

 We spent some cold days sheltered in place, while we waited to be sure that our COVID symptoms were really gone. We have never taken our temperature so many times in all of our lives! In the last few days of COVID we were fever-free all day, only to see that temperature rise up to around 100 degrees in the evening. We finally lived through that trend, and we have now been completely fever free for four additional days! According to the eight pages of typed notes that they gave us when we tested positive for COVID, the current protocol is that you must be fever-free for three days before returning to work and life in general. We waited a couple extra days past that before we made the long-anticipated trip to see our new grandson.

He was cuddly-snuggly, and we had a great first visit with little Eli! He is six days old, and he is doing great!

He even gave us a first grin. Some would say that this was a response to gas in his belly, but we're pretty sure that he was just pleased to meet Gram and Granddad! We think he is is thinking about all the fun we're going to have together.

We didn't stay long, but we took enough pictures to keep us occupied for a while. We'll be sorting through them, and holding them close to our hearts as we treasure this unusual first visit with our new grandson.

Now we are back to our motor home, biding our time while watching more television than usual. Sitting here at the border of Kansas and Missouri, we're "blessed" with the local political advertisements from two states. From what we hear on those paid political commercials, everyone running for office is a crook. We are also taking care of some business. We picked up our mail-in ballots that were sent to our son's house. We carefully read the instructions, and got them in the mail. 

We have now done our part! We won't get political in this very divisive year, but we thought a recent facebook posting summed up our feelings, "Waiting for election results is like waiting for a grade on a group project. I know I did my part right, but I'm scared y'all messed it up." We're just glad to have the assurance that whoever wins the elections, we know that God is still in control! That's important in our lives, and the life of that new grandson we finally got to meet.