Saturday, July 17

Up at 7:30, but skipped my exercises so I could get ready for a visit from Daughter, Granddaughter, and Great-Grandkids. Once I was ready for the day, I accompanied Mother over to our house.

We did some preliminary preparations for a sandwich lunch, like tearing lettuce, slicing tomatoes and Vidalia onions, and washing grape tomatoes.

Family arrived around 10 a.m. We visited, and walked out to the garden, where I picked rain-washed grape tomatoes off the vines and gave them to Great-Granddaughter and Great-Grandson to eat. They seemed to enjoy the idea of eating tomatoes right off the vine.

Around 11:30, we had a lunch of deli turkey sandwiches, with Muenster cheese, the lettuce, tomatoes and Vidalia onions, and cottage cheese with grape tomatoes, plus pretzels or tortilla chips. Dessert was a choice of cantaloupe or watermelon.

We had intended to use wraps to make our sandwiches today, but when Daughter started to prepare a sandwich, she noticed mold spots on the wraps. I was aggravated by this, since we had purchased the wraps at the WDCS yesterday, and they were dated as being fresh until July 19.


I can't seem to win for losing when Granddaughter visits...the last time she was here, we served chicken noodle soup, but forgot to put the chicken in it!

Oh well, the sandwiches were satisfactory anyway, served on honey wheat bread. The two kids ate a world of grape tomatoes. Since they love them so much, I gave them a container full to take home.

After lunch, I gathered lots of scrap paper, stickers and the like so that Daughter, Granddaughter, and Great-Granddaughter could make greeting cards. Great-Grandson was only interested in the stickers, which we applied to his hands and face.

Just like all young children who visit here, Great-Granddaughter and Great-Grandson enjoyed playing on the stairs...climbing up, and bumping down.

After a while, Great-Granddaughter entertained us with several pre-school songs that her class had performed at an end-of-the-year event. They were cute songs, and Daughter, Granddaughter, and I joined in the singing when we learned the words. There's something about an activity like this that spins my happy meter. I could tell that Mother was enjoying it, too.

Afterward, we all had big glasses of homemade lemonade over ice, and visited for a while longer. Around 4 p.m., the two-year-old fell asleep, and Great-Granddaughter was asking to go home. So the family gathered their things and headed to their car.

Around 5 p.m., Hubbie, Mother, and I had a supper of leftover tomato soup, with cheese and crackers. Then I accompanied Mother to her house.

Not long afterward, Hubbie and I went to the WDCS to get a refund for the sandwich wraps, and pick up a loaf of bread and five pounds of sugar, plus a small litter box for the kittens.

Back home, we watched the movie, "The Rising Sun," a 1993, R-rated film, starring Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes. The movie plot centers on the investigation of the murder of a call girl in a Japanese boardroom. We've seen the movie before, but it has been a while.