Grandma

My Mom came to visit for 10 days for Samuel's birthday. It was so nice getting to spend so much time with her. The last long visit was for about a week when Sam was born! Many thanks to my Uncle Eric, Aunt Nunuk and Aunt Terri for getting her here and back again :)

Sam loved having her here to be an extra playmate. He would keep playing the songs on his exersaucer for her to dance to, while she was trying to get him to dance. It didn't work, until she left that is. Now when there is music he walks in circles waving his hands in the air.

While she was here we went to Galveston one day, it was the first time David and I had been down there since Ike. I have to admit it looked better than I expected. Sam, despite his love of water was not terribly excited about the ocean. But the fact that it's mid-March and the water temp is around 70 (and had me gasping) might have had something to do with it. Sam liked sitting in the hole I dug, and knocking down any kind of sandcastle (and I use the term loosely) we erected; excepting the submarine David made.







One of the things that we got to do while she was here was go on a couple of dates, for the first time since Sam was born! One night we went to the Cheesecake Factory and later in the week we went to see 'Slumdog Millionaire' which we thought was very good. I guess I'm not erudite enough to understand why Salman Rushdie thought it was so terrible.

I finally got to take her to the zoo and show her my babirusa's, my friend Meredith got to come too so that made it extra fun. I also drove them both through the Heights (Starbuck's in hand since it was cold that day) so that they could ogle the old homes there. I wish all of Houston looked like the Heights, sigh...

Saturday night we went to Todai with Aunt Nunuk and Uncle Eric, and I admit I was a little skeptical of a place that billed itself as sushi and seafood, that also expanded into a Brazilian churrasceria like Fogo's. It was actually pretty good. I can't vouch for the sushi but everything else I had was yummy. We all ate quite a bit since it's a buffet. Then we all rolled on to Target, naturally, then came back to our apartment to yak and had some hot tea.

Sunday brought packing, church, and dinner with Aunt Terri at Cleburne Cafeteria. For anyone out there who is a Luby's purist and doesn't like the way things have headed, this is where you want to be. It also brought the Amazing Race which David and I have watched pretty much since its inception and just absolutely love.

Grandma, we miss you. Thanks for helping feed Sam, clean up and letting me take a nap or two and shower everyday! And thanks for your friendship and Godly wisdom, how wonderful that I can say that my Mom is my best friend.