February 2006 – Julie's Journal

Nicole Spends the Night

Nicole emailed this week and asked if we were doing anything Saturday night. I answered her that it was wide open, so she replied that she would come to see us about 4:30 or 5:00. Grandaddy and I were very excited that our #1 grandchild was coming from Athens for a visit, so Grandaddy said “let’s get tickets to ‘Good News’. I wasn’t sure there any were available since it is a dinner/show, but I called Friday morning and they worked the 3 or us in. Nicole came about 6 and we went to the show. It was so good (as all of these Street People Shows are). We visited until 12:30 a.m. and all went to bed.

This morning, we went to 9 AM Mass. We were very proud to show Nicole off to our friends. Charlotte Keller came over to our house for a visit after Mass and we enjoyed talking with her areound the kitchen table. She left, and we just kept sitting there and Ted came over. So, the 4 of us had lunch and Grandaddy told stories about when he was on the SS Bennington in the Navy.

Nicole left about 1:30 or 2:00 and Grandaddy and UT went to Pike’s to get some weed control stuff that Ted is now putting on our yard. We have such good children to help us out!

Aren’t we lucky?

Fiona in a Musical

We went to Athens today to see Fiona in a musical at her Episopal Church Nursery School. The children were just precious – all dressed up in their finery with paper crowns decorated by each one full of hearts and jewels. Fiona lent her good friend, Katie Grace, a pretty necklace to wear and Katie Grace, being such a good girl, came right up to Fiona as soon as the muscial was over and returned the necklace. The program lasted about 20 minutes, max. Then we were served cheese pizza and salad (both pretty good actually) and Valentines Cookies in different colors. Fiona ate a pink one. That’s her favorite color.

The pastor of the church is a lady and they call her “Mother”. I thought that was pretty funny, but actually they couldn’t call her “Father”.

Michael was quite good. He loves Fiona’s school and would like to be attending, himself. He’s trying to talk a bit, still laughs about everything.

We went by to see their house under construction. It’s going to be beautiful and huge. They got a contract on the house they are living in this morning and it’s close to the asking price. Yea!

We visited a while at the house afterwards and Grandaddy put on a puppet show for us. It was soooo funny. We should have gotten him a puppet house a long time ago. He’s really good at this!

A fun day.

Bees and Flies

Yesterday, Jeb and the girls were over here and we were talking about Dad going to the doctor. Jeb said that I should go with him because I would think of questions to ask that Dad would not think of. I agreed, but I told him he needed to tell Dad that because he never likes me to go with him. So, Jeb did tell Dad and this is the way he thought it would convince him:

“Dad, you should let mom go with you to the doctor because she is scattered and you have lateral vision. Dad, you are smart like a bee. You can put a bee in a jar and he will just keep butting his head against the side of the jar because he just sees the light out there and thinks he can get to it. But, a FLY, not the same. A fly is stupid and she just buzzes all over inside the jar until she finds a way out. So, the bee eventually dies, but the fly lives on.”

Now, I ask you blog readers, who is stupid? The bee or the fly? And, also, what do you do with a son who chooses to convince his dad by making his mom “stupid”?