What the Heck?

This afternoon we had some fun with mini-golf over at The Oaks, a favorite spot of ours.  We had some free mini-golf tickets left from Madison's birthday, so we called up one of her friends and headed over to play the course again, after the rain.  It was supposed to rain all day, and be heavy rain too.  And that rain did in fact come, but it cleared out, seemingly just for us.  The owner of the place wasn't even expecting the rain to clear up, but sure enough, it was cool and dry by the time we went out to the course.  It was a fun time!  Madison was playing with her friend, and I was playing the course with Mom one hole behind.  In the end, Mommy had the best score, outdoing all of us.  But it was nice, and not at all crowded, and just a fun time getting out of the house to do some mini-golf.

Madison and Mommy then spent a good bit of time with the Ryans, some friends of ours that live nearby that golf course, and that was nice.  Madison and Jolina were listening to songs from "The Greatest Showman," which we actually watched later on:  we haven't seen that movie in quite some time, so we enjoyed watching, and singing along as well.  Madison had been singing the songs, and even playing them on the piano as well.  She had piano practice, and was playing a few of these songs.  We'll probably have these songs on the playlist in the car soon enough.

Mommy made some mushroom soup today that was so delicious.  We had that and salads, and some of those tomatoes from the garden too.  We're growing a lot of those, and in fact Mommy is planning on using some of them to make a salsa with.  The tomatoes have been great though, a plentiful harvest!

Today we learned that I have an uncle, possibly.  Which implies there's possibly cousins.  I've not really talked about the genealogy so much here on my mother's side, but we've sort of learned that her father, a Pan-Am pilot overseas, had somewhat of a secret family in England.  From what I understand, he might have even gotten married over there.  But he had children, who were reaching out to us recently.  Technology with DNA tests and ancestry searches have all gotten more advanced, and this morning's shock was the fact that yet another family member has presented himself.  This time it is from my mother's mother, who we believe now had a child at a very young age, and probably gave that child away for adoption.  So my mother has a brother, and didn't know it.  The DNA and the ancestry information and locations seem to support all this, but it's been somewhat of a shock.  We thought we had a family with two grandparents, three daughters, one of those being my mother.  That's all I ever knew through dinners, gatherings, and the various events of life together. But there appear to have been some secrets, and that's been quite the shock.  Our grandparents never told about these secrets, and we have relatives that are suddenly appearing from California (today's new uncle) to England (the ones from a family in England).  I don't know all the details, but we'll post them here eventually.  Yes, this is crazy.

If my grandparents were still alive, the questions I'd like to ask them have dramatically changed.  Actually,  they're all simplified to this one simple question:  "WHAT THE HECK?"

We said our prayers tonight, and we read again from our Superheroes devotional, and then from this book with Mara Jade.  It was a quiet day today.  The girls had fun talking for a few hours with friends, and there was mini-golf too.  It was a good day though, a simple one, a restful one, and a fun one.