One girl gone on a trip to a wedding in another state
Three girls gone to their friends’ houses in the area
One boy and his dad completing Hunter’s Education Field Test in another county
One boy intently whittling a wooden fox at the dining table (he got lonely in the breakfast nook)
Two boys doing electrical school homework at the dining table amid wood shavings
One girl gone to work in another town
And me in another world
Puttering around the house in between obsessively working on the details of a Chattersticks book
Pretty blissful