2019 Joy Journal

November 25, 2019 The wifi is giving me a hard time this morning, and I hope that isn't going to be an all-morning thing. So frustrating. Barry and I drove down to Firefly yesterday afternoon. I think he wanted to show me what was going on with his oyster baskets. We took our lists and planners and spent a few minutes at the kitchen table working with them. It wasn't quite enough for me, and i had to get back up in the middle of the night to finish it, but it was a pleasant time. We had Second Sunday Supper on Saturday so that it would be easier for Tori to be here. It turned out that, at least on this particular Saturday night, it also meant that the older grandbabies could stay and finish their game of Nines. And so, with the house mostly empty except that table full, they gathered up in the dining room and played and talked and laughed. It was like an impromptu Goodtimes, and I loved it. Barry was talking about it the next day.  We got to meet Logan, Angela's f...

January 21, 2019 We got Moe's Southwest to cater last night, and it was the easiest Second Sunday Supper of all time. They delivered and set up and everything.  Brittany and Jon Marc came early and got the family room set up --- she sent me a text around 3 to see if I needed any help.  James got lots of loving.  Jaden had a big time jumping off the fireplace and everybody clapping for him.  I just relaxed and sat at the dining room table, and we visited and had a good time. Brittany said that in one of her interviews they had asked her to tell them something about herself that wasn't in her resume. She told them that she is from a big family, that we get together for suppers once a month, that we are diverse --- that she is religious, but that she is an aunt who is Buddhist, and that we all get along at supper.