Week 24
I had lunch with my dear friend, Carolyn, this week. We’ve been friends since high school. We got married about the same time and had children about the same time. We both had three kids each and our third ones were born just two weeks apart! Our busy lives have just about separated us, but lately we’ve decided that we need to see each other and talk more. So we have a standing lunch date once a month now. I so look forward to meeting with her each month!
She’s a true, from the heart, quilter and she’s volunteered to help me finish up this green quilt. I got all the blocks sewed together and that was the easy part. Now I’m on a mission to find some fabric to finish it up and then she’ll show me how to use her long-arm quilting machine to get it quilted! That will be an experience but I’m looking forward to it! Talking with her this week has me all reved up to finish my quilt.
I also had lunch with my oldest daughter and her two boys this week. We met at the one Mall that we have in town. It was a nice visit and I got to catch up on what’s going on with them. They’re all excited about a vacation trip to the mountains next month. I don’t blame them — I wish I was going! After we ate our lunch, we went to Andy’s for some ice cream and more time to visit. It was a wonderful afternoon!
Hubby’s birthday was this week and I’m on vacation from work this week (YEAH!), so we spent the whole day together! I took him out for breakfast to his favorite place — Shoney’s! We love their breakfast bar! Next stop was to get him some new walking shoes. He walks on the treadmill every day and wears out a lot of shoes! He’s never been to the Nature Walking Trail that’s been around forever right here in town, so that’s where we went next. It took us about two hours to walk the whole distance. We both enjoyed the walk and saw a chipmunk, fish, squirrels, deer, turtles, a lizard, all kinds of birds, etc. We were getting hot and tired by the time we got back to the beginning, so it was nice to see the air-conditioned car again! He said he enjoyed it, though, and that we would have to come back again.
The rest of the day was just relaxing and enjoying being with each other. We sit in the swing out back with some lemonade, had Subway sandwiches, and watched a movie that I got him for his birthday. It was a good day!
Father’s Day was this week also. Hubby’s very fortunate that his Dad and Mom are still alive and fairly healthy. His Dad is the only Dad I’ve ever had. My Dad died when I was three and my Mom never re-married. I’ve known my FIL since I was 15, and he’s been a great dad! He’s a bit pushy and controlling in his ways, but he’s always been there if we needed anything and helped us so many times I can’t count! He’s not an affectionate man as far as hugging etc., but he does love his family and has always taken care of them the best way that he knew how.
I baked him a hugh chocolate chip cookie and wrote “Happy Father’s Day” on it. We took it to him when we went to visit them on Sunday. He hates for anyone to give him anything. “I don’t want you to spend your money on me!”, he would always say. So we try to think of something to give him that he would really like — and I don’t know a man that doesn’t like chocolate chip cookies! Hubby’s brother, his wife, one of his nieces, and one of his sister’s and her husband came over while we were there, so we all had a nice visit.
Hubby didn’t get to see any of our children Sunday, but two of them live in another city and the other one has so many things going on in her life, it’s hard for her to get everything squeezed in sometimes. They remembered him in other ways though.
We’re going to have a busy vacation week — a lot planned!
