Summer is here!

It's been a busy, good month. Here are some moments:

-We have a haku lei making marathon.  We make them for Jesse's seminary graduation, and then some more for the high school graduation.  We pick flowers from the yard and from a friend's.  Siwa forms the little bouquets and I wrap them onto the lei.  They turn out really beautiful, and a lot of love goes into them.

-At the high school graduation, the graduates put on a show and rock the house.  There's singing and dancing and backflips, and one senior crouches on the podium clapping and gets the audience going.  Afterwards, outside, we can barely maneuver through the crowd.  It's a throng of people, jumbled with signs, leis, balloons and blaring music. It's a fun night, but I'm glad to get out of the noise when it's over.

-A friend of mine is visiting from the mainland.  She and one other friend come over for lunch.  Our trio is reunited.  We have sandwiches with homemade bread, a green salad, and lilikoi (passion fruit) juice with chunks of oranges and pineapple, basil and ice floating in it.  The lilikoi and basil are from the garden.  It  feels like old times. Some people are like that, you pick up with them where you left off, as if you never parted.

-We have family coming.  We work really hard to get things ready.  We deep clean and move furniture and make space for eight people.  We wash curtains, clean screens, windows and sills, sweep, mop, dust, wash bedding and towels, make beds, and more.  It is so worth the effort.  Can't wait to see them!

-Saturday morning.  The weather turns warm and still these days.  

Scott and I are up before the kids. We open all the windows to let the fresh air in.  

There is hardly a leaf quivering.  It's going to be a hot one.  

Summer is here.

Elena catching a gecko.