What a wonderful weekend! It started out by me doing some serious compromising with regard to loud music on Friday pm, as son 1, who will shortly be departing for pastures new, had a few friends over for a pool party. I love it when the kids are at home, with their friends, but my ears took a major bashing. Later in the evening I was mopping up the dining room, which opens directly onto the pool, after aforementioned son decided to splash his dad, who was standing right there. Less than impressed, as the flood reached about 7 feet into the house, soaking floor and furniture.

House guests arrived Saturday, and the 13 -year-old immediately hit it off with mine, leaving his mother to chill on the last day of her SA trip. What I have learned : sometimes the people we think we know, we don't really know at all, and the people whom we meet for the first time can be comfortable like a pair of old slippers.