Lori drove over to Manitowoc on Mother's Day, arriving barely in time to meet the rest of us for lunch. (Mornings are not her friend.) She brought with her a freshly baked rhubarb pie. She served it to those gathered at Mom's house that afternoon, and ran out of forks, so I got the giant serving fork to eat with!
For the duration of our meal at Silver Valley, a buffet for Mother's Day, Mom had all her daughters together. Right after this photo was taken, Kerry had to head for home to get some sleep before going to work that night. Lori and me in the back row, up on the hearth, with Kerry, Lynn, and Jill in the next row, and Mom up front. She never wants to get her picture taken but I insisted. We have so few photos of us all together and time is running short!
The day after Mother's Day, some of us went to eat lunch at Late's Drive In, my first time there since remodeling was completed. The food was excellent! Enjoy my perch sandwich greatly!
Linda had surgery on Monday, had to recuperate at home. Lori needed Internet so she drove us over to see Linda and to tap into her Internet. Linda's cat was guarding her so she didn't move around too much, very territorial! Lori at last got the information she needed to send off Mom's DNA sample to do her Ancestry thing. This should be fun to see how Mom's test comes back. Oddly, two sisters who did the tests did not show much German at all, even when all the family history says Germany...
Here are Lynn's three grandsons, getting so tall and handsome. Gabe is the oldest, then Manny just a little more than a year younger. Up front, that little cutie pie, is Angelo, who is going into 1st grade this next year. Love their chin dimples!
Jill and I went to eat at the newer Mexican restaurant in town while Lynn and Mom attended a piano recital in which Gabe and Manny were participating. We had a very nice evening, and saw some customers Jill had taken care of in the parlor earlier in the day, a group of fellows on a trip. That was kind of cool. They were so nice.
This is one of my favorite pictures of Mom. She was laughing at something Linda said and I caught her without Mom even knowing it. Love the naturalness of it.
On my flight back home, I had a sweet little guy sitting next to me. His mom and younger sister were across the aisle. He kept himself busy with a video game but after a while he got sleepy and took a nap. Little by little his shiny little head found my arm and then rested on it. I had my arm somewhat raised to support his head so it wouldn't hurt his neck. The mom looked over and saw this and started to say something but I motioned to her that it was fine. Little did she know how much I was loving this, and how much effort it took on my part to not stroke his hair....
