Celebration Mom

Mom's birthday is 19 Jan. but we had a pot luck family celebration yesterday. Mom was asleep as people arrived, having been in hospital overnight. While waiting for her to awaken, some family members played scrabble, while others eyed the tempting food on the buffet, which included a gelatin mold, a big salad, tuna salad, salmon cakes, bread, and baked goods AND a fabulously delicious red velvet cake! Mom was a happy camper when she awoke to find most of her family in her tiny home. She loved opening her cards, blowing out her candles and eating her cake. Yay for Mom, just about 96. And this morning, she began to read the new Fern Michaels book that she got as a gift. Doesn't she look engrossed in it?

First trip of 2010

We drove up to New Jersey the first weekend of the New Year to celebrate the little guy's 9th birthday. The weekend included ice cream cake, playing Scrabble, seeing a wonderful production of "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" in Red Bank (where they have this cute train station) and a deliciously smelling bakery (where I was able to capture another shadow of me in my fun hat)and removal of the old American flag (which will be disposed of properly by my neighbor, with help from his veteran's group.) The ice cream cake was yummy good and the Scrabble playing was a lot of fun. The board was designed like a baseball field, since that's one of little guy's favorite sports.