I expect this to be a busy week. We will be hosting a small part of my extended family for Easter Dinner. I think the count is somewhere in the 14-18 range, less than a third of the family. I won’t have to arrange for extra tables and chairs, and we won’t have to cook in Oh-My-God! sized vats. I think it should be a really lovely gathering.
Part of my oldest sister’s family will be out of town this coming weekend, so she is bringing just part of the crowd. Dear Husband’s daughter and her family will be joining us, and we hope his second son and the son’s girlfriend will join us, too.
Even with a small group coming, there is still cleaning to be done, and I need to clean out the gardens along the sidewalk. I had intended to have them done last week, but our plans were interrupted when our son-in-law needed emergency surgery (see the next entry).
I plan to start my spinach, go to exercise and then grocery shop for Elegante Mother. After a visit with her, I’ll do my own grocery shopping and then head for home. Tuesday is house cleaning and ironing. Wednesday is exercise, library and a visit to Comcast to return equipment, before I spend the afternoon in the office.
The rest of the week, I’ll be working toward being ready for quilting bee on Friday evening and dinner on Easter. There are dozens of chores to be taken care of, but fewer than usual, because our gathering will be smaller. I’m really looking forward to it all.
We’re expecting temperatures in the seventies on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. I hope you all have the wonderful week that we are expecting!
Daily Archives: March 28, 2010
An Exciting Week
It’s been an exciting week at Chez Buffy. My son-in-law went to the hospital for emergency surgery. He’d been ill for four days when our daughter insisted that he see the doc. He was sent on to the hospital on the suspicion that he either had a burst appendix, or it was going to burst imminently.
He arrived at the hospital in the early afternoon, and they kept him waiting from three o’clock until midnight, when they started the surgery. The doctor said that the appendix had burst earlier in the week. He was kept in the hospital three and a half days, and then was sent home to finish his recuperating there.
We visited with the kids (and grandkids) today, ten days after all this occurred, and other than being cautious around the girls as they played, SIL looked fine. He has recovered enough to have returned to work. His work is primarily telephone and computer oriented, but still…..he was back at work within a week of a perilous illness, and surgery. The man is made of steel!
We’re all hoping that he will be more careful about delaying a visit to the doc in the future.
I personally felt it was a week that warranted prayers of thanks for letting our son-in-law come through this safely!