Easter Reunion . . .

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What the picture doesn't say is . . .

How long it's been since this little group has been together: two years.

What has happened in the interim: almost losing Adeline to HLH and watching her fight through and get a bone marrow transplant and then fight through all the complications. Others in the family have suffered depression, loneliness, identity crisis, poverty, and that grey visitor to all our doors . . . Hard Times.

This was the first time -- EVER -- that Lily and Zoe really got to play with their cousin. They still have to be careful . . . we all wash hands a zillion times . . . and use "Germex" . . . but everyone got hugs and (some of us) kisses from Addie! Zoe lost her first tooth this weekend. Lily rode her bike around the block five times.

Above Dad you can see the African marriage heads facing one another under the "Gye Nyame" symbol. In Ghana, that means, "Except God" -- i.e. except for God, nothing will happen. Thank you, Abba-Dad for being the creator of families, the bringer-together of loose ends, the author of happy endings, the arranger of these drooping flowers into a bouquet . . . on Easter.