What a beautiful day it has been! Our weather has been perfect, the gardens are full of June flowers, and the neighborhood was humming with the sounds of children playing, dogs yipping gleefully, and adults calling everyone in for barbecue. It was a wonderful day to celebrate all fathers, and I hope that you had as happy a time as we did.
Indeed, we found out on Friday that our daughter and grandson would be able to make a quick trip to our home to spend some time with us over the weekend. So, of course, we quickly made menus, did a flying trip to the grocery store, and started on the happy task of preparing potato salad, vegetables, chicken, and, of course, chocolate chip cookies. We keep a pretty standard menu because we want to be sure that we have food that everyone can enjoy. As you can imagine, we've prepared these things lots of time so the preparation is easy. The fact that we work well together and can share kitchen space with no problems is icing on the cake (if we had one!).
By supper time on Saturday, our family had arrived (late-sh because of grandson's soccer game) and we were all together at the table enjoying each other's company and catching up on the news. After a trip to the local ice cream stand, we relaxed and let our guests decompress from a week at work and in school.
Today we went our to a local diner for breakfast, relaxed at home, and instead of Uno played a game of Scrabble! Grandson used to "help" me play Scrabble on the computer when he was a little boy, and my goodness, things have changed! I was amazed at how good he was not only at coming up with words but also with the strategy involved. The latter made me proud of his ability to multi-task (or would that be multi-think?).
After they left, D and I relaxed in the backyard reliving the weekend. I also took time to snip some of our blooming roses. We don't know exactly what these two types are other than one we found when we moved into this house. It was in the field behind us where the old farmhouse had been (we also got our lilacs from that field). I suppose we could call it the Farmhouse rose; the other one is simply an old moss rose (it's the paler rose on the right).
Basically, we had a weekend much like every other family celebrating Father's Day and isn't that just super!
Very happy that R and C were able to visit and that you had a good time. No UNO? And here I was ready to call and ask if you needed another person!! I guess C has grown up.
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