Slipped By Me
The New Year almost slipped by me as we were focused on Jim having yet another surgery. This one was to repair a hernia and it was successfully completed the first week of the month. After a few days of painful movement Jim is feeling like he's getting back to normal!! Yippee!
We are currently enjoying a week of beautiful, warm SoCal weather with temps in the high 70s ...perfecto. Laura and Steve escaped the cold of Montana for a few days and headed to Quartzite. They're not Rvers so they found a nice motel that would take the 2 granddogs. Yesterday they arrived in Corona and we celebrated son Jim's birthday.
As usual I made Jim a card (now using American Greeting's online to create and print for $20/year). Jim says, "Is this going to make me cry?" We all laughed and he scrunched up his face like he was crying. Evan, (5 year old Great Grand) says, "Cry like you've never cried before!" Where does this kid get his lines? :)
Mary organized a taco/fajita bar for dinner which was really delicious. I'd never seen the meat prepared for the fajitas and it looked pretty easy. Laura whomped up a cabbage and kale salad with an oriental flavor dressing. We ate the whole bowl full!! Ice Cream Cookie Sandwich birthday cake topped off the evening.
Grandson Jim Skyped with all of us so we got to experience excellent video connection time. It was almost like he was with us although he's now living in San Luis Obispo. Unfortunately, Tom missed the party due to the flu (we missed you, Tom)
Two more birthdays coming up that will be celebrated on Super Bowl Sunday. We are a divided family...half Bears, half Packers. I guess one of those teams will get to the Bowl. Oh....and HAPPY NEW YEAR :)