Happy Saturday morning. I pray your weekend has started off well. We’re doing a bit of busy-body work this morning. Two loads of laundry, empty dishwasher, fix a little something to eat, put stuff away that we should have already put away; —- you know —— just stuff. 

Tomorrow we are heading to southern Illinois and possibly Missouri for a long weekend. We are going to the Heumann family get together. I’m excited to see the cousins and become a bit more acquainted with them. I really don’t know so many of them and there aren’t that many. My parents moved to Indiana when they got married. All the rest of their family remained in southern Illinois. WhenI was a kid we would go over to see the grandparents maybe once every couple of month. We’d go on a Saturday afternoon after Dad got off work and then come home Sunday afternoon after lunch. Most of the time there we spent at my maternal grandmothers house and then drop by for a couple of hours at my paternal grandparents house. So, I never really got to know my cousins at all. I am so glad that we have connected through social media and are getting to know one another. Unfortunately I already lost a couple of them. It was my intent that we have a chance to get together somewhere beside a funeral home. 

Ms. Kate and I will be staying Sunday night in one of the Bluff Cabins in Giant City State Park. Then we plan to meet with another cousin from my maternal side for lunch and have a visit. From there, we plan to go to St. Genevieve, MO and spend a couples of days. I had made reservations at a bed and breakfast for Monday and Tuesday night but we cancelled those reservations because Kate has had a rough week health wise and we didn’t want to pay for something and not use it. So, if we do decide to stay, we will just find a place. I expect it won’t be hard to do. BUt, we need to play it by ear. 

That’s it for today. Have a most blessed weekend. Take time to go to your house of worship and give thanks for a week of blessings. Take time to pray for our nation too. We need all the help we can get. Peace.