There’s something about summertime that brings out an extra dose of wild sibling shenanigans around our house.  It’s the combination of all the extra quality time together, the lack of a structured schedule, and a diet that consists of “whatever we can find around here”.   It’s midday nerf wars and late night movies.  I remember the days like the ones in this picture when they were smaller and they thought it would be fun to try to learn to braid mom’s hair.  I tried to sit back and enjoy it, even though I think I lost half my head of hair.  These days, it’s trying to teach mom to shoot her nerf gun correctly and how, at a minimum, to stand up and run away while trying to learn to play Fortnite.

Summertime around our house has been completely different this year.  

I used to keep their summer schedules completely full.  They’d …