Chapter 4 – It’s all About the Fair
Friday Morning, August 8th, 2014
I woke up at 5:30 AM to a house on the brink of complete chaos. The kids were home and, for the time being, nestled in their beds upstairs. Soon, they’d be flitting about packing this and that and loading it all in my camper as Kris cracked a figurative whip over them and did more than a little yelling. Fair move in day is upon us!
I poked my head into my den to look in on Dana. She’d finally been given the okay by her orthopedic doctor to start bearing weight on her injured left leg but stairs were still out for her. Given our current living arrangements, with my sister and her kids, it was probably best that she had a room of her own, downstairs, anyway.
Touching her shoulder as she lay half reclined on a pile of pi
