Dear Dad

Dear Dad,
I'm excited to report that Lexi did very well on her spelling test last week. It's been a little rough on her this year. It's been the first year that she's actually had to try and rightfully so...the work she brings home is pretty challenging. Though I'm not sure if the improvement jump was because she studied harder or was just a little luckier this week. Either way I'm very proud. I had her hang it on the refrigerator so that you could see it and so she'd know I was excited for her merit. Carol came yesterday to visit Mom and is staying a couple of days. I don't know if it's because being with her sister reminds her of growing up and younger days, but she's been acting very childlike...in a good and sort of playful way. We all played Apples to Apples after dinner with Lexi tonight and she actually played. Played in the sense that her being was playing. She made jokes and was outwardly unhappy when her card wasn't picked...excited when it was. There was a person with depth there that I haven't seen in a while....even way before you left. She kept turning the outside porch light on and off on Eric while peaking though the blinds to laugh at him. I just wish you could have been here in a way to react to it with us. It was really great.

-Tiff