nothing to do ?? more reflections

wow ... what a great week-end this is turning out to be. spending time with family, especially those who you don't get to spend enough time with is always refreshing. our visitors left early this morning to meet with mark's sister's family. the reason for the meeting was to pick up michelle and tony's two youngsters for what is being billed as "cousin camp".  even though these two siblings are separated by many miles (georgia & michigan) they've made  it a priority to maintain close family ties.  karen and i have found ourselves with almost nothing to do today. early this morning i took a drive to my sister's farm (about 30 minutes from our home) to check on her and my brother-in-law's horse and mule, and to give the farm a once over since they had been in maryland visiting family and were returning today. after some necessary yard work for me and some necessary laundry tasks for karen we napped, read and now blogged . i started to think that i'd not got very much accomplished this week-end and then i thought again. hopefully karen and i were able to make this part of our extended family feel special, because after all they're family. "family - a person or people related to one and so to be treated with special loyalty or intimacy".