My Week in Review November 30-December 6, 2015; Spending Time with Family and Friends

Monday night my sister had us over for dinner. Joshua spent a lot of time with his Aunt Jackie growing up.

Actually both of my children spent a lot of time with their Aunt Jackie and they both have fond memories of their time with her.

I appreciate my sister so much for helping me and always being there for me when I needed and still need her.

Of course we had a wonderful meal of creamy potato soup and a spinach pasta salad with my sister’s yummy homemade balsamic vinegar dressing. We didn’t have to ask Jennifer twice to hold Miss Sofie while we all ate dinner.

Jennifer has always had a way with babies and that Monday night she quieted Miss Sofie with her calmness and a little rocking.

John made Miss Sofie a little baby ring and finally had the chance to give it to Emilee. The ring reminds me of the one that we placed on Joshua’s finger when he was a baby. I can’t wait until her finger is big enough to wear this one.

Emilee and Joshua are four years apart and they spent a lot of time together when they were very young. I was so happy that Emilee could join us for dinner.

It was fun listening to Joshua and Emilee visiting.

Of course I didn’t get to hold Miss Sofie very long,

before Joshua took over.

I loved how he felt of her little head and hair. We had a wonderful evening with Jackie, Mark, Emilee, and Miss Sofie.

Tuesday evening, Joshua and I went to his Aunt Andrea’s house for dinner and had a wonderful meal and visited with Andrea and Joshua’s other cousin Maria, who is fours years older also. Joshua also spent a lot of time with Andrea and his cousins Maria and Ben. They were all like brothers and sister. Maria and Ben both live in New York now and were back in Kansas for the Thanksgiving holiday and for their Mother’s 70th Birthday. Ben had already left on Tuesday but Maria wasn’t leaving until Wednesday, so that gave us another chance to visit with them. Sorry, no pictures were taken of the evening. Joshua was to leave on Wednesday and asked if I could break away from work to meet him and his Dad at Tanya’s for lunch. Of course I said yes and we had a great meal before I had to say good-bye to my Chacho Aaron. It’s always hard for me to say good-bye and there are always tears. I miss him so much that my heart hurts. But I am so thankful for the time that we had together and that we have such modern devices to keep in close contact with each other.

Anyway, the rest of the week flew by and Friday night we again joined our dear friends, Korey and Susie for an evening of dinner and dancing. Susie is getting really good at remembering the steps. Now me, I can’t remember them to save my life.

On Saturday I decided to clean up a little bit in Joshua’s room. So John and I worked together to get the bed remade and the curtains put back up to the windows.

I know you probably have been wondering if I have been crocheting, right? Well, you can be assured that I am still crocheting, but I’m working on a couple of large projects that I can’t show you yet but will be sharing them soon. So did you have a great week? I would love to hear all about it.