June 23 Family time in Minneapolis area

    I haven't seen my cousin, Curt and his wife, Diane for over 20 years.  We spent most of the day with them.  Dalton is 19 and will be a sophomore in college.  He's learning to play and Curt and Tom played for a couple of hours.  Diane and I left for a bit to walk by the lake across the street from them.   Curt has had a lot of health problems and was a stay-at-home dad.  They owned a singing telegram business for many years before Dalton was born and Diane went back to teaching after they closed it.
     Now she is a literary coach for students and teachers.  Her job is to keep the teachers updated on new ways of teaching reading skills etc.  She says the teachers are way too set in their ways and she prefers working with the kids, who are hungry to learn to read!  They bought a small house 17 years ago and mold was found last year and much of it has been redone and is so nice now.  That contributed to Curt's illnesses and he hopes to be on the mend now from a fungal skin infection etc.  He finds it hard to believe that my sisters and I are all grandmas several times over.  He lived in Detroit, Chicago and St. Paul when we were kids, so we didn't see each other nearly as often as most of our other cousins, but he still has fond memories of us and my parents.
    Tom's brother, Mike, and girlfriend, Sherry, flew in from Phoenix today for the wedding tomorrow night.  Kathy and Bob were at the rehearsal dinner, so their daughter, Gen and the 4 of us went for pizza.
    There was rain, thunder and lightning during the night last night, so very humid again today.