Tuesday With The Family

I've got more pictures this time and most of them are self explanatory. I'll explain a few of them but I'm not going to caption each one.

Tuesday morning I made the dreaded trip to Kro*ger and Wal*mart to do my grocery shopping. It's already so hot that my mother in law, Lida and I like to go early and get back as soon as possible. That's partly because of the heat spoiling my groceries, but mainly because I hate to sweat, to be totally honest here. I was back home by 10:45 and we had just finished carrying the groceries inside and Lida had just left when Cecil and Sue got here.

They brought lunch with them and they always bring me something, bless 'em. Today we had chicken strips and tater logs with ranch dressing to dip it all in. It was good and a bonus was that I didn't have to cook it. It always drains me and my knees kill me after I do my shopping so I was grateful for the ready made meal.

Thanks, sisters!

Cecil and I didn't eat all of our food so we saved it for Jessica. She had called to say she was bringing Emmy for a visit and she arrived just as we finished eating so Jessica took over where Cecil and I left off with the chicken strips and tater logs. She pretty much finished what we didn't eat so 3 people ate all they wanted from 2 meals.

That's my sister Sue with Emmy in the top picture. I made sure I got some pictures of her with Emmy this time. Then there's me and Emmy and Jessica and Emmy. I love the look on Jessica's face in that first picture.

Jessica is feeling much better now as you can tell by her smile in the next picture with Emmy. Thanks to all of you who offered sympathy, love and concern for her. According to how Jessica feels she may work Saturday and I may keep Emmy for her.

Jessica and Emmy were here about 3 hours and Emmy was asleep most of the time, as you may can tell by the pictures. She's got her eyes closed or partly closed in almost every picture. She snacked quite a bit while she was here and Cecil and Sue and I all got to feed her. I can tell she's gaining weight and filling out. The sleeper she had on is a newborn size and when she stretches out it just barely fits. It won't be long before Jessica will have to retire some of her sweet newborn baby clothes for bigger duds.

Just before Jessica left she strapped Emmy in her carseat. I got a picture of peaceful Emmy sleeping. So innocent and sweet. Then she almost laughed out loud! I don't know what she was dreaming about but it must have been hilarious. She just kept smiling and grinning. I managed to get a few pictures of her sweet grin but it was hard to catch her smiling, it was so fleeting and my digital camera has a pause between when you push the shutter button and the actual flash and picture taking.

Cecil had to play with her and try to get her to grin some more, but she was about down for the count by then. As you can tell by the next picture Emmy was doing some snoozing as Jessica was saying her goodbyes.

After hugs and smooches all around for Jessica and Emmy, after they left I took a few pictures of Sue and one of my 2 cats, Dolly. Dolly is a fat good natured air head of a cat and she loves her lovin'. If you quit petting her before she's done being loved she'll pat you with her paw to get your attention, or rub her head on you to bring the focus back to the important stuff - HER. She is a big kitty but she really looks huge in this picture because of the angle I suppose.

Jen had asked in the comments on my last post about more and better pictures of my new hairdo. I had Cecil take some pictures of my haircut before she and Sue went home.

We went outside because the natural light is better. You might be able to tell that the sky is dark behind me in these last 2 pictures. It was cloudy and sprinkled on us a bit while we were outside. I got my hopes up because I really thought we might get a nice shower but it wasn't to be. Just a little cloud spit again, dang it. If it doesn't rain on Wednesday I'll have to water my outside flowers again.

Lamar is on his way from Dallas as I type this. He's coming back by train on Amtrack this time. He should be home in the wee hours of Wednesday morning if his train is on time. He's getting home just in time to catch me in a pickling frenzy.

I plan to put up some pickles Wednesday with the cucumbers that Lida brought me. I bought spices when I got groceries. I'll make some Kosher dills and some dill refrigerator pickles. I like the kosher dills better and Jessica and Lamar like the refrigerator pickles more. The strange thing about that is that when they eat all their refrigerator pickles Jessica starts on my Kosher dills. I have to hide some if I really want any for myself.

Well, it's been a tiring day and I have pickles to can on Wednesday, so I'll wish everyone a happy and blessed Wednesday.