Spit Bubbles

Illinois Here I Come

Tomorrow morning I fly to Chicago with my brother Pat. Then we catch a bus that will take us to Rockford where Uncle Wayne will pick us up. We'll spend the weekend and come home. Really looking forward to seeing my aunt and uncle and my cousins. I'll be back on Sunday.

Catch Up

Dalt and Wyatt

Zach, number 10, at his game.

This was a great picture until I did the red eye thing and got the blue across Shaquira's face.

Getting ready for cake for Aunt Cris.

So last weekend was very busy. We rushed over to Zach's basketball game and caught the tail end of it. While I was trying to take pictures Wyatt said to take his. So I did, and it was one of the few that turned out that day. Wyatt is my neighbor Dalt's grandson and that is Dalt in the picture with him. Zach's team won the game. One kid did a spectacular throw right at the buzzer from half court and it went in. Amazing.

After the game Mom and I headed over to Beth's house for cake and ice cream. Aunt Cris had her birthday last week and this was her party. We had a nice time and heard some stories we hadn't heard before. That is always special because someday there will be no one left to share those stories.

Then Mom and I went shopping and out for dinner at Thai Lotus. It is a Thai place up on McGillvary and 162nd AV in Vancouver. Mom had lemongrass chicken and I had vegetarian yakisoba. Our meals were really good. Everything smelled amazing there even if it was spicy. I went back again on Monday and had pad thai and it was special.

Shabbat

My friend Nathan had invited me to Shabbat last fall. But then he felt like he needed to use all his spare time studying so he didn't fail that quarter. Nathan is a nursing student. So we rescheduled for last night.
Shabbat at Nathan and Staceys' house consists of lighting a couple of candles and singing a song/saying a prayer. Nathan explained it as Christians saying grace. I guess the difference is Shabbat is done on Friday night. I likened it to taking a moment in our busy busy lives to pray/reflect/just stop and breathe.
Nathan cooked spaghetti. The sauce was homemade. There was a fruit bowl and garlic bread. Very nice supper. Then the kids told us stories/dreams before they moved to the living room to watch a movie. Us grown-ups chatted and the time flew by.

Sports Medicine

Ali at work told me I really needed to follow through with sports medicine. Just in case there was a small tear in my knee. Small is better and easier to fix than big. So the sports medicine office called Friday morning when I was home. They got me in two hours later. Dr. Muhammed was great. I really liked him. He tried to torture my knee and only his thumb on one of my tendons hurt. He wiggled and ground both knees in every direction a knee goes. Said I have very stable knees and my pain/stiffness is tendinitis. At first he was going to prescribe, but then thought better of it. Said doctors always want to do things and change things, but since my regiment was working we would just stick with that. It is just going to take time to heal. Great news for me. I was so relieved.

Amanda

So at work we have this cart that we make deliveries in. It is yellow and runs on a battery. Driving it is similar to driving a riding lawn mower, except it makes no sound. And that is very odd. Anyway Amanda comes in to work one day and says she so embarrassed herself. She saw our cart driving down one of the sidewalks and so she decided to startle Ricky. Ricky mostly drives our cart. So she hops out in front of it doing the boo thing and it is not our cart or Ricky. It was some other person. Amanda said she felt so silly.
After we got done being amused by this I pointed out to her that the brakes on our cart are really bad and she is lucky because Ricky probably would have run over her before he got the cart to stop. She said she hadn't even thought of that... I said yeah it is a mom thing.

Audrie is Growing

This is my most recent picture of Audrie. We took it yesterday. She is getting to be so alert. She talks to you and is quite the chatterbox. Takes after Nana that way.