Got up a little after 6 a.m. this morning, so I could make a pineapple upside down cake for lunch. After I baked the cake, I got ready for the day and then Mother and I continued kitchen-duty until Son and Daughter-in-Law arrived later.
Their primary reason for visiting today was to wash the windows at Mother's house. They have been doing this every spring for the past several years. We were lucky that we caught a nice sunny, reasonably warm day, after several days of rainy, cold weather.
Around 11:30, Mother and I fried chicken in a couple of electric skillets, and I put the baked beans into the oven to heat. We were ready to sit down to lunch by noon. We had hoped that Daughter, Sis, Great-Grandson, and Great-Niece would be able to make it for lunch, but they didn't arrive until around 3 p.m.
The five of us enjoyed the chicken, potato salad and macaroni salad, baked beans, and hydroponic tomatoes. But we waited until the rest of the family arrived before we served the cake.
When they came, we immediately donned birthday hats, lit the candles on the cake, and celebrated Shiz Tzu's seventeenth birthday with snapshots. Shih Tzu didn't care, of course, but she did enjoy an earlier lunch of a portion of the fried chicken.
After the late arrivals had time to enjoy their meal, we served the cake. We spent the rest of the afternoon visiting, until Son and Daughter-in-Law had to leave around 4 p.m. Daughter, Great-Grandson, and Great-Niece stayed until about 8 p.m.
It was a good day. This is the first time Mother and I had a chance to meet Great-Niece, since we and my late brother's family had lost touch until we found each other again on a social networking site. We all just seemed to get busy with our own lives and none of us crossed paths until recently.
Mother and Sis went to Mother's house soon after Daughter left, and Hubbie and I went to bed shortly after the 10 p.m. news.
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