First, I have a new grand niece! (Is that what you call your nephew’s daughter??) This is My-Sister-The-Nurse’s TENTH grandchild, and Elegante Mother’s 25th great grand child. Pretty cool, huh? There will be four babies born to our family in one year. There’s still one more to come, in September. My youngest granddaughter arrived at the end of September. Another of my grand nieces arrived on Christmas Night, one came yesterday, and the last is due at the very start of September. Isn’t it wonderful to have babies to hold? The women in my family are good about sharing so the kids just go from woman to woman to woman. Even the girls get in on the baby holding.
\nToday, I collected Elegante Mother and made a trip to Morris, Illinois. Ostensibly it was to purchase birdseed, but Morris has this amazing quilt fabric store…. I warned Dear Husband that I was going to Morris. I have to give him credit. He didn’t even roll his eyes!
\nWe played at the fabric store for the better part of an hour, and then shopped for bird seed. For some reason my mother has taken a liking to the diner at the truck stop. This is the LAST place I’d expect her to choose for a meal, but she was happy as a clam with the luncheon special of salad bar and half a tuna sandwich (which she brought home).
\nWe chatted about what we were seeing in the farmland as we drove We are both interested to see how well the farmland churches are being maintained. God is alive and well in rural Illinois. Some of these churches have even added schools, so the kids are educated closer to where they live.
\nWe saw several types of towers that must be for reception of tracking data. UPS keeps track of their trucks and they know when a package has been delivered. The pipelines have (or used to have) towers to keep track of the flow of the oil (I think…I’m a little rusty on this, since Dad, my font of knowledge passed away more than two decades ago.) I’m sure in this day and age there are dozens of reasons for these towers. There are two of them just down the road from us.
\nWe also watched the suburban crawl edging over hills that used to be prime farmland. To get to what we can honestly call “rural” land now, you have to drive an hour and a half out of Chicago, at the very least.
\nWe had a lovely day. Elegante Mother loves to go for day trips like this, and she informed me that I was NOT to return to Morris without her! *G* I think we’ll go in warmer weather so that we can visit some of the specialty shops that have popped up in town. We both would like to look at antiques and linens. I’ll have to see if I can pry EM away from the truck stop for lunch so that we can try some of the restaurants, too! *G*
\nThis was a “good time was had by all” day. Now we can settle in for the rainy days to come and not worry about impending cabin fever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
First, I have a new grand niece! (Is that what you call your nephew’s daughter??) This is My-Sister-The-Nurse’s TENTH grandchild, and Elegante Mother’s 25th great grand child. Pretty cool, huh? There will be four babies born to our family in … Continue reading