Mom looks at the camera, I look off to my right, and Lori yells at someone on her left

I've been off the computer

almost all week, with family in town, complications beyond counting, #confusement and chaos.

Sister "Bucket List" Lori

decided to spend a day with me and attend my daughter's Baccalaureate ceremony Saturday morning. Oops! Forgot to pack some of her dialysis equipment. Tubing ("cassettes), aka

A new hook-up every night

Which became a runnning gag for the weekend.

Smiling and calm, Miles the Zen master (left, seated, hands folded) takes it in stride. One must be more than a wee bit Buddhist, after all, to play Jazz for a living.

Confusement

is my favorite word, coined by an electrical engineer who meant "confusion." How perfect is that? Not as perfect as love which overcomes all confusement with lots of Kodak moments and four generations, counting the great-grandkids.

oops again,

No photo of four generations together in one image, but here's three:

Commencement, Baccaluareate, Graduation

ceremonies, any academic or Awards Ceremony, is torture for me and everyone in my family, except the latest one graduating, or baptizing a child, or stressing over details of a wedding (bridesmaid dresses: gaaah!).
Outdoor ceremonies in the hot sun, lasting TWO HOURS, for the elderly, for babies, for ANYONE, is just.... do we HAFTA put all our family and friends through the wringer...er, rituals?

We survived! Both a college graduation and a baptism took place the same day/same hour, so we missed out on the newest family member's big day. Clocks and calendars, coordinating schedules of 12+ adults, Who imagined things would ever be smooth and easy?