June 9th 2025

In a chalky blue almost-summer sky drive Patience to the first day of dance camp...

...then back home to conversations with all the boys... life philosophies and MEPS planning and a fifteen-minute play-by-play wizarding world story creation from Yali expressed to me in riveting detail... “And d'you know what? Look, look... And d'you know what? And d'you know what?”... while Mama scrubs dishes and pushes laundry...

By this time it's lunch... and a little Alfred Hitchcock...

...before an online meeting with Yali's therapist that exceeds its time limit due to good discussion....

And back to the studio where Patience has enjoyed six hours of Irish dance and lunch-swaps... “And guess what? 'B' and I aren't fighting anymore... we're besties!”...

Home to pack up for a swim with “Pops” at the community center pool...

...while Mama preps a pizza casserole for the oven which is almost entirely consumed within fifteen minutes of emerging from the oven...

...and Puck returns from work around seven in a great quest for Chick-fil-A pineapple-dragonfruit frosted lemonades...