May 30th

Mom with some of her family on MAy 26th, 20012. Katie and Steve's wedding.

Time for Catching Up with Ceil

Things are pretty quiet here during the week.  Douglas and Ceil have their twice weekly outing for coffee at Target and then Dickey's for lunch.  Last Thursday Ceil and Doug spent the morning with Sister Mary Minette. The three had lunch at The Depot. Ceil spends some days (usually Mondays) with Denise.  Last weekend was Ceil's first overnighter at the Fletchers.  Ceil did great.  Ceil had a lot of family visit her during the weekends.  Yesterday Ceil attended Kaite's Bridal Shower. Today was Mother's Day.  Denise and Hannah stopped by with a hummingbird feeder for Ceil.  Kevin came bearing chocolates.  Brian came with some beautiful flowers for Ceil.  Doug, Robbie, Steve and Kaite were also here. We all enjoyed a Famous Dave's homemade dinner of Rob's ribs, chicken, coleslaw, salad (courtesy of Mickie), beans, cornbread muffins (courtesy of Doug) and seven layer bars for dessert (courtesy of Colleen).  Ceil enjoyed being with her family. What a beautiful weekend to enjoy being with family.

Early start to the weekend :)

Ceil awoke to Linda singing "Good Morning" (from Singin' in the Rain) to her.  Linda took the day off to max-out her birthday weekend.  Linda treated Ceil to the "spa" treatment.  Afterwards Linda asked Ceil if she wanted to see what a million bucks looked like- Ceil said yes- Linda put Ceil in front of a full length mirror. Ceil's reaction:  WOW!   After breakfast it was off to Stephanie Hanson's (Judy Grimsley's daughter) garage sale.  Stephanie was accepted into law school at Regents University and the whole bunch (Steph and her family, Ken and Judy) will be moving to Virginia soon.  Ceil was happy to see Judy and get caught up on the latest news from them.  We wished them well and then it was off to Savers.  Ceil ran into Bonnie there.  Bonnie works at Savers, so we're not quite sure if that's how she knows Ceil or if it's outside Savers that Ceil knows her.  We shopped a bit, found a few things and then had to decide what to do for lunch.  We decided to try China Star again.  Haven't been there for a long time but the food was quite good today.  Ceil enjoyed her meal, especially the apple pie dessert.  Ceil is resting now.  We'll have to see what this evening might bring!

The weekend- Errands and a little visiting

April 28th- Ceil woke up this morning with a smile on her face.  As she was getting ready for the day Little Christopher peeked around the corner to say "hi"!  The four of us (Ceil, Rob, Linda and the little man) enjoyed scrambled eggs with yellow rice for breakfast (it smelt like Ybor City in the morning- just the espresso coffee was missing).  After breakfast we strapped ourselves in the van and headed to Crossroads. Ceil needed a haircut. We lucked out- Great Clips was running a $7.99 haircut special.  Pippa did a great job as always giving Ceil a hip and fun summer haircut. After Ceil's nap we took a trip over to Big Lots.  We found a deal on coffee and a few other items.  We decided to drop in the Fletchers to see how they were doing and in return we got an invitation to stay for a pizza dinner.  Ceil loves pizza so it was a difinite yes to the invite.  After dinner, we came back home, watched a little TV and went to bed.

April 29th- After a light breakfast, we headed to Sam's Club. As we waited in line to renew our Sam's Club membership, I turn around and there's Kurt Buttweiler and his family saying hello to Ceil.  Ceil was SOO happy to see them!  We chatted and got caught up on their lives and Ceil's life at home.  Ceil was full of hugs and kisses for Kurt's kids.  We picked up some needed items for the house and headed home for lunch.  Ceil is napping now. Not sure what the rest of the day will bring...we'll see what happens.

 Christopher loves riding in his Great Gramma's chair with her...here they are watching Rob make breakfast for them.

 Ceil on the floor playing with Christopher

Kurt Buttweiler and his family- Ceil was so happy to run into them.

april 21

tuesday morning Mom, Denise and Karen got their eyebrows done at the Beauty School.  The young lady doing my eyes was from Bagley so we had a lot to talk about.  Wednesday Mickie, Mom and Karen went to the dance at the Legion in St. Augausta. So many friends from Medina stopped by the table to say Hi to Mom. Mom had a wonderful time. We even talked to an old neighbor who played in the band.  Thursday Mom, Mickie and Karen went shopping at Kohl's and then came home for the day. Friday Doug, Mom, Kevin and Karen went grocery shopping- Coborn's in Sauk Rapids and then to Sam's Club. After Mom's rest Mom, Kevin and Karen took a walk--it was to nice to be indoors. Saturday morning was shower day and nails day done by Denise. I called later after 7 to see if Marlene had stopped by and she was there visiting with Denise, Mom and Kevin. Linda and Rob home tomorrow.  Pictures to follow.

April 21

I of course did it backwards.  Look at photos from Sunday today going back to last Wednesday. Scroll down to read about the last few days.