Tuesday, March 13

Today is Great-Granddaughter's birthday. Happy Birthday, Great-Granddaughter!

Trouble going to sleep again last night, but had to get up at 6:30, anyway, so we could get ready to go to a town about an hour and a half east of us to do some shopping, and to meet Hubbie's sisters for lunch.

We headed out around 8:30. What a gorgeous day for an outing, with the temp rising to near 80 degrees later in the day. We ran into heavy fog in the flat lands, though, due to the marshy-wet fields on either side of the highway. Fog is a type of ground-level cloud, of course, and today it was very apparent, with color gradations from from white to dark gray. I guess the dark gray was heavier with moisture, because it dipped lowest to the ground.

We arrived in the other town in time to spend a leisurely 45 minutes or so at a hobby store. Mother and I were interested in buying stickers to use in making greeting cards for Caring Hands Hospice. Fortunately today, the stickers, except for two cards of them, were priced at 50% off. For those two cards, we used 40% off coupons I'd printed from the store's website. We also bought a variety pack of plain card stock, also 50% off.

From there, we went to an Italian restaurant, where all of us, except one of Hubbie's sisters, had the all-you-can eat soup, salad, and bread sticks. The five of us managed to polish off two big bowls of salad, a couple of baskets of bread sticks, and two bowls each of the delicious soup.

After lunch, we went to a store that has a sale every weekend. I was looking for a red blouse to wear to the Red Hot luncheon later this month. I found one that is sort of burgundy (not really my color) that fits beautifully and was on sale. So I'll make it work by adding flattering jewelry and makeup.

Mother found nothing she wanted at this store, nor at the mall that we visited next. We meandered through a couple of clothing stores, we decided to stroll the mall, since she had never seen it. In the past, even though we always had the wheelchair with us, she preferred to stay in the car whenever we visited the mall. But today, she felt well and therefore happy to ride in the wheelchair and shop with us.

Our last stop for the afternoon was the warehouse club store. Mother stayed in the van this time, while Hubbie and I shopped for grocery items.

We were back home around 5:30 p.m. I accompanied Mother to her house. At our house again, I gathered grapes, and an assortment of cookies (fig newtons, graham crackers, and Thin Mints) to take back to her for snacks.

We spent the rest of the evening watching TV. I didn't get an exercise session in today, but since I was on my feet most of the day, and walked a lot, I felt tired enough to have done a workout of sorts.

Tonight we watched the 2011 movie, "Win Win." A teenage boy walks into the life of a volunteer wrestling coach, who is also a failing lawyer. The coach/lawyer, out of financial desperation, takes on the position of paid guardian to one of his elderly clients, who has dementia, and who is the teenager's grandfather. The coach discovers that the teen is a champion wrestler, who can help his losing team win in competition. But the teen's drug and alcohol abusing mother comes back into his life. What will happen now?