Still Normal

Today as I was folding the my tenth zillion load of laundry, I thought, we are still normal. We still have laundry and do the dishes, and clean bathrooms. Sand fills the house everyday, so there is still sweeping and not enough of it. Beach towels fill the laundry. We have to buy food and feed children (more that usual because they are starving).  Tantrums, whinning, melt downs, and diaper changes. Bandaides are still needed and more than usual with Ellie driving her skateboard. She calls it "the magic school bus." Its her long board and she doesn't weigh enough to turn it by herself, so she recruits whoever is willing- Sam, Jayne, Jake, or any of the neighbor kids. She puts them on the front of the board and off they go. All have been bandaged at this point. We still get tired and sometimes even grumpy. The normal things in life don't go away, even in an extraordinary circumstances. We still love eating oreos on the front porch.