Seeing the grandkids in a public setting is very interesting to me. They are a lovely bunch of shy, quiet, unassuming children. They resemble not at all the lively bunch that bounces joyfully around my house each week. Feintsje even managed a nap in my arms with all the whooping and hollering going on all around him.
After our morning of basketball, THGGM and I went out for breakfast and to our favorite thrift store. Since I am getting rid of stuff instead of hoarding stuff this did not take long or cost much. I found two nice shirts (brown - my most recent favorite color) and two card games (15 cents), and a great old piano book.
Since we are old and chubby, we came home and took naps. Well, THGGM took a nap. I crocheted a bunch of sad looking flowers. My hope was to make beautiful pink flowers to add to the thick pink doll blanket I made earlier in the week. Oh, well.
After nap time was coffee time.
Since our pantry was looking a bit empty grocery shopping was a must-do on our agenda.
I had a list ready and off we went.
But then TwonderfulHGGM suggested that if I would like he would drop me off at Michael's Craft Store while he did the grocery shopping. Wow. He is SUCH a great human being.
While I was perusing the yarn bins at Michael's I remembered that last Saturday we had exchanged words about shopping together.
So it's me. I'm rather a load it would appear.
While shopping for yarn at Michael's I smiled sweetly to myself and hummed a happy little tune in my head.
Oh, and speaking of happy little tunes, that piano book I found at the thrift store today? It is great. An 'easy to play' collection of songs. The first two pages were missing, but I flipped through it enough to know that I would in fact be able to play most of the songs, and that I recognized all of the ones I saw. The really happy little thing about all this is that it has the song "Linus and Lucy" from the Charlie Brown Christmas special. We watched that a few times around the holidays and I decided I would put some effort into finding the music for that. When I bought the book I didn't even know it was in there. But when I sat down at the piano tonight (old habits are hard to break) and started playing through the book, there it was!
Things like that make me so unbelievable excited. Just the way that I find what I'm looking for without even knowing that I've found what I was looking for.
Well now. That's about it. Unless you want to know how excited we also were with our dinner of tomato soup and grilled smoked turkey and cheese. You might not know this about me, but I make a VERY good grilled smoked turkey and cheese.
Have I mentioned lately that I am quite boring and am okay with that?
And the pictures? Feintsje is SEVEN months old today. Oh, my. So many changes.
Soon I hope to tell you of the arrival of our fifth grandchild. But she isn't here yet. Soon though. She'll be here soon! We are sooo excited!
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Yesterday was my only day off for an entire week. Hopefully I'll be home next weekend! Dear Hubby is thinking about squirrel hunting with a new hunting buddy from the GR area and asked if I wanted to go see you on Saturday. I said I'd be half-dead, I'm sure. Plus I told him I'm pretty sure that new granddaughter will be showing up soon...I was right. Spring, Judy...I'm looking towards Spring! :-) Or at least in a few weeks when Other Grandma is here to visit for a couple of months. Or so she says. We will see....
waiting for your grandchild too. I know why, when you did not start to do so when newly wed (or more modern housing together) shopping for groceries is not to be done together, period. Men have anothe system of getting things like sugar, coffee etc., when they look at prices they go for the cheapest, not for their favourite branch, mostly, and run through isles with pepper, washing things, from hair, body, clothes and dinnerplates, powders or liquid, boing, boing, are put in the basket, no time to look for the right brands either. Or just the other way around, contemplating endlessly if the cheaper might be better etc. They just have a different way of shopping. Need a shirt, come on, woman, do not look at skirts or trousers, we only need a shirt, pick up, buy, leave. We, women, look around more, so we know next time exactly where to find what we need then, men go in search when "when" has arrived. My sister divided groceries in two groups, hers, like detergents and nice things and his, basic groceries like coffee, flour and sugar. They walk the isles separately, take a cup of coffee, decide which veg (hers) and fruit (his) to buy and she always buys the meat. (Guess why, he goes for the highly priced meat, can't do for pensionados). It works perfectly. I had a great find saturday a week ago too at the thrift. A blogger found at the thriftstore an incomplete knittingmachine. A week later I saw a basket with knitting machine utensils under a table where they were clearing out and throwing away the dustcovered things. The basket was the only thing left, so I picked it from under the table and had to pay next to nothing for the whole of it. I knew I could not use it, but maybe she could. There were some things in the basket I could use for my knitmach, but only two, they would new have cost me tenfold what I paid. I contacted the blogger, about 30 km. away,wrote about searching for needles for my old Singer sewing machine (turns out to be a Singer handdriven from 1882, belonged to my mother, bought secondhand). I have a modern electric sewmach too, but anyway. Friday I took the basket to her and no, she had no needles for me, but, Oh how marvelous, some time ago she had bought a tin full of buttons and in it was a spool for my old sewingmachine, you can not buy those for silver, maybe for gold. So, I made a very happy exchange, she was a very nice woman too, totally living the way I do, though her house was much tidier. Ah well, I was not born a housekeeper, but a homemaker. So I thought of my fathers saying: he who does well meets well, I think it goes for she too. DM
Your day sounded STRANGELY like some of OUR days around here ('cept we don't get to see our grandchildren nearly as much as you).
oh that baby is enough fo me to keep peeking in! We need to get groceries this evening. We planned dinner out and doing it last night but got the chance to keep just Ollie and we jumped on it! Have a great week!!
What a beautiful baby, such a chubby, sweet face : )
If I didn't go shopping with my guy, all we'd wind up with is frozen pizzas, burritos and corn dogs : /
I think your life sounds charming. And your dinner delicious. Your littlest guy is growing so fast and is so adorable. Won't it be fun to have a little girl baby?
Oh Judy! Thanks so much for the early morning smile today.... I would love to be independent together with you!! :) Blessings, Debra
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