Monday, May 28, 2012

And so…the evening ends with only 1 visitor remaining in the house. Grace went home to spend the night with Austin and Cole stayed with Isabell. Hamburgers on the grill earlier in the evening for Melissa, her husband Jeff, Austin and Cole.

While at the swimming pool this evening waiting for swim practice to end, Mandy stayed at home to get things ready for the cookout. Macaroni and cheese makes a nice side item for kids; sliced tomatoes, onions, and cabbage leaves. Yes that’s right. When I asked my 25 year old daughter, who obviously cooks very little, about the cabbage; she replied by saying, “I thought it was just old lettuce.” I don’t know if I laughed more knowing that she didn’t know the difference between lettuce and cabbage, or the fact that she was going to feed us old lettuce. Anyway…

Earlier in the afternoon, David and I were visited by Roy (David’s oldest brother) and his wife Ann. They were returning from the doctor where Roy had blood work completed to determine if his white blood cells were proportionate to his red blood cells. Roy was recently diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma of the throat. He is receiving chemotherapy and is expected to respond well to the treatment. His hair began falling out today, but he and Ann seem in good spirits laughing about his hair growing back red. They left around 4:00 PM.

The next visitors arrived around 5:30, Bubba and Nancy (Jeff’s brother and Mom). Bubba visited with David for a while until Nancy began blowing the car horn while waiting in the driveway. With little shade in the front yard, I am sure she was getting pretty hot.

With Grace spending the night with Austin, and Cole spending the night here; we are somewhat balanced with number of individuals sleeping in the house tonight. All in all…

An additional number of visitors today was 8, that’s 45 visitors in all and 1 dog.