Hello on Saturday Morning

Dear Friends,



We had another pleasant day with our grandchild. When we both went down for an afternoon nap, Max slept an hour, but I slept for 2.5 hours.



I am guessing that Max will be up in a little over an hour.

We are not sure if Kyla got back to Boston yesterday by way of Chicago after her direct flight got cancelled. The news reported that over 1000 flights got cancelled.

Kyla will be coming to pick up her son at some point today. She might even stay over on Saturday, and leave for Boston on Sunday.



It is like a winter wonderland outside right now. The snow showers continued all day long on Friday, but our snow showers gave us at least 8 inches of snow. We might have missed the second storm, but the wrap around circulation of the low pressure system just seems to be grinding out more and more snow even though it is of the light variety. We are still in a winter Strom Warning until 7 PM this evening.



Social Calendar – I am socially engaged today, but Linda is not. Today is Women Imaging and Endoscopy Center Polenta Dinner at the Berkshire Hills Country Club. I have to report to the kitchen at 10 AM. We are making everything fresh form scratch; the sauce, polenta, donated venison, and sausages (purchased), and salad. I am not sure where the desserts are coming from. We will be serving over 500 people.

I won’t see Linda until after the kitchen gets cleaned up which I hope is not too long after 8:30 PM.



Neither of us made it to the concert last evening. A friend came by and picked up our tickets. He was going to try and sell them at the door. I am hoping that he might have sold at least one of the tickets at the door.



Linda posted some more pictures of our grandchild on her face book, and she has already picked up some rave reviews.



I finally sat down last evening and watched the Olympics with Linda since there was no ice skating events scheduled. I didn’t stay up as late as she did.



Observation – It has been very pleasant for us to have our grandchild with us, but his parents really miss him so much. When we had our first son, Linda and I went on a camping trip with another couple. My parents took care of Michael. When we arrived home, my mother said that Michael kept on pointing to the picture of Linda and I which were hanging on the wall in her house. The guilt of leaving our child for an extended period of time was pretty much overwhelming. Our Depression Era / World War II generation of parents would never have left their child for 2 weeks while their parents had a grand old time. We only left our children one other time which was on our tenth anniversary when we went to Aruba with another couple. That trip and things that happened to our children, and who baby sat for them is a whole other story.



Have a great Weekend.

Talk to you soon. The Curley Lad