It was one last hurrah before everyone went their separate ways. To begin with, I’ll be alone next Sunday, so we had a Father’s Day lunch with family and friends a week early.

More significantly, it was likely the last time L could spend time with her almost-cousins (though they just call themselves cousins) T and C: they’ll be going to Poland later this summer and staying for the entire first semester of the school year. So this weekend was the last chance for them to play school (why is it that they always play school when they’re together during a break?) for almost six months.

So during their visit, we did the only logical thing to do in during the hot South Carolina June: stayed inside or stayed in the water.

The downside of those hot South Carolina June days is the likelihood of thunderstorms every afternoon, which is exactly what happened today, which meant the kids were forced to find another way of entertaining themselves.

Somehow they managed.