Happy Monday, blog friends! Y'all know that I write in order to remember, so I'm covering more than just the weekend.
For Christmas, we bought our oldest granddaughter a real sewing machine. For her birthday, which was in March, we gifted her with sewing camp which was this past week, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. I'm so excited because she loved it!
Her mommy was sweet enough to send us a picture of her on her way the first morning.
On Tuesday, Mark picked her up from camp because it is just from 9-12. They went to Chick-Fil-A for lunch and then they went to her house to play Barbie. Pops is the best Barbie player ever.
Tuesday night rolled around quickly. Cole is the guy with his arms up and he sold his car a year or so ago and rides and electric bike everywhere. He lives a considerable distance from our house and he even rides it to our house. He ubers some times and some times friends give him a ride, but he uses the bike the majority of time. Some of the rest of the group parked around the corner and they all rode up on bikes and razor scooters so that it looked like they were joining Cole. It was very funny so I snapped a quick photo.
It was also Millie's last night with us. She is a NICU nurse and has been working here in town where she grew up. She is moving to Nashville in a few days and will be working in the NICU at Vanderbilt. She is the one on the right with red hair. Jessie and Elizabeth, pictured with her, are both in PA school.
This is a horrible picture of me but I wanted to remember the night!
Millie is the one leaving, yet she brought flowers to me and Cookie Fix to share with everyone else. She wrote a very sweet note to Mark and me. We save all of those notes from the Young Adults.
I worked on Wednesday morning and then it was my turn to pick up our granddaughter from sewing camp. We picked up lunch and at quickly and then she and I took the golf cart and headed to the pool.
Mark didn't eat his lunch, but saved hisChick-Fil-A salad for dinner (in the fridge). He evidentally had an allergic reaction to a spice in the seasoning on the spicy chicken. He became violently ill within 30 minutes of eating the salad. It wasn't food poisoning - too fast. He has had a few issues with a spice that is in Mexican food seasoning, but this was frightening. He was very sick for about 3 hours and then he was fine.
On Wednesday, I saw a bunny hopping down our sidewalk! I grabbed my phone but this was the best photo I could snap. He was a quick little bunny!
When our granddaughter was with me, I shared a blanket with her that Mark's mom had started. I had brought it home sometime in the last year and was going to finish it. She was completing the projects quickly each day at camp, so I told her to take the blanket to her last day of camp. I showed her what she needed to sew but told her that I would need to help turn it in order for her to sew the last side. Her teacher helped her so she finished it! This means that her great grandmother started the blanket and she finished it. I love that.
I spent the majority of the weekend reading and writing. Our class started last Monday and beginning Tuesday, we had something due every night before 11:59. The smallest thing was had to do was write 300 words on our discussion board and then comment on two other posts. By Saturday, I had to write 700 words. We move on to the next four chapters this week - whew!
We had invited friends over for dinner on Saturday night, but Lu had received her first Shingles Shot on Friday night and it made her sick - stay in bed sick.
I actually "somewhat" cleaned our house around studying and laundry and working on our Sunday School lesson. I ran the Roombas and dusted and wiped down the bathrooms and cleaned the kitchen counters. It wasn't "inspection" clean, but it was passable clean. haha!
I was at work by 7:00 a.m. on Sunday morning and I taught Sunday School and then we met our son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter for lunch at The Ridge. This was a "new to us" restaurant. This restaurant along with a few others is owned by the same person (group?). We've eaten at three of their others. The decor in this one was really unique.
Our food was good and we would definitely go back.
Mark and I came home and took a Sunday afternoon nap and after our nap, I read a little and then hopped on the stationary bike for a few minutes. Mark has been working on a "craft" (his word) using antique Ball glass jars and other things so he worked on that for a while.
We ended the weekend with a little TV watching. We did watch a movie at some point during the weekend - either Friday or Saturday night. We watched Fountain of Youth. Some of the movie takes place at the pyramids and it was so cool to remember our trip to those pyramids back in October.
That was our weekend PLUS. I hope you had a good weekend. Did you do anything fun?