Happy Birthday to Beckie who is forty years old today and celebrating with Kyle and Micah and the two poodles down in New Orleans. Beckie reminded me when we just talked to her that we now have four children forty or older! Wow....
The week started with Steve and me getting our second Covid shots. Hooray! And, happily, aside from a sore arm, we had no adverse reactions.
I got a text Monday morning - before our shot appointments - from Emily who was at the zoo with the kids and was having some severe gastric issues and she needed my help. Since the zoo is only about fifteen minutes away, off we went. Steve actually had to drop me off and return home to get his shot record but I was able to spend about thirty minutes with the grandkids and we visited the polar bear and the red pandas. The weather was gorgeous and the zoo was full of people but we were all masked and it was all outdoors....
Julina arrived Monday afternoon. Stratton is on his two-week spring break and at his dad's for the first week so Julina felt comfortable leaving Alex to spend a few days with us. Since she works virtually right now, she was able to do her work from our library/office during the day and then spend time with us in the evenings. Beckie came over for dinner and a visit on Tuesday and on Friday, Emily left the kids with Joe and also came over for dinner and a visit. It was grand!
The grandkids were also on their spring break this week so, instead of just having Larkin come over on Tuesday, I invited all four to come so their mamma could have her own "spring break" for a few hours. They had a great time making art using my acrylic paints, some foam cut outs, and leftover 5X7 picture frames. (clockwise from the top left: Noah, Quinn, Larkin, Lucy). Lucy and Quinn also painted some tree cookies and I drilled holes in them to make necklaces. After lunch, we played Qwirkle and then dumped out our large bucket of assorted Lego pieces and they were in heaven. Emily used her time to do some major organizing and straightening up at her house so it was win-win for everyone.
I had a couple of appointments this week - a routine bone scan Tuesday afternoon which showed I have no bone loss - and an eye exam on Wednesday which was LONG overdue (I had my last exam and new pair of glasses five years ago). On Thursday, Steve had an appointment in Columbia with his renal doctor so we spent the day there - first having lunch with Steven and Elise at Culvers, then Steve's doctor visit while I taught Ethan an in-person cello lesson, and finally dinner with our friend Elizabeth before driving back home. It was a nice day but very rainy.
On Friday, Emily booked a fifty-minute session at a local cat cafe and invited us to join so we had fun with grandkids AND kitties....
Wednesday night, Julina helped me prepare for making sugar Easter eggs and on Friday, after the cat cafe, Steve and I went to Ballwin to help the grandkids assemble and decorate. I haven't done these in YEARS and it was a fun, nostalgic activity for Julina and Emily and a new adventure for Noah, Lucy, Quinn, and Larkin.
Finally, this morning, the Carondelet String Quartet (the string quartet I play in) performed for the Palm Sunday services at the Epiphany Lutheran church where we rehearse every other Friday morning. We are so grateful to have free practice space in their fellowship hall so playing in their church services was a way to say thank you. It went well, I think.
Because most of our evenings were spent visiting, we watched no movies but we did see the rest of season one of the Great Pottery Throw Down (Julina enjoyed watching with us) and, last night, Steve and I watched the first episode of Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
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