February 16

It was a great weekend with the family. On Friday, I spent some time with my daughter-in-law, Jessica, did some shopping for Valentines Day and got ready for Reagan's visit. When I got back home, Mom Poland was there and we had tea, and planned the weekend.

On Saturday, Tyler and Amy and the children came for a visit. We planned a lunch, and ate together, when Reagan arrived with Cameron and Jessica. It was a late lunch because Reagan's flight was delayed. She was pretty tired but looked wonderful to her mother. We missed Bing as he is away in the Phillipines, on a mission doing Facial Surgeries. Unfortunately, Bing was suffering from a nasty virus when he left and feeling pretty rough. I hope that he is feeling better now.

Ron got me a wonderful teak porch rocker for Daisy Island for Valentines day, some beautiful balloons and some toy goats. I wonder what it means when you get a rocker for Valentines Day instead of lingerie though???? (Editors Note: We understand that your partner thought the rocking chair would be the perfect complement for the vegetable slicer and tablecloth he recieved from you for Valentines Day. He reportedly felt that the romantic part of the gift was the hand-held portable full-length mirror, the heavilly plagiarized poem about personal livestock and the Kama Sutra bi-modal sheep-goats he had given you along with the rocker. No offence was apparently intended in not gifting lingerie). For dinner Ron cooked live lobsters and steak. It was just great. Tristan and Makenna, were quite fascinated with the whole process. They preferred to eat the steak though, as more familiar to them. Cameron and Jessica brought me some wonderful yellow roses, my favorite flowers that always remind me of my mother.

On Sunday morning, Ron and I, Reagan and Nana, went out to look at two houses with Cameron and Jessica ,which they were considering. We all enjoyed the exercise and Reagan was very interested in the process of assessing houses and what to look for. Ron and I shared with them our extensive experience at house hunting, and offered to look for a house in Texas for Reagan. Maybe one with an in-law suite. We also pointed out that we learned a lot from our mistakes in house buying, like once having bought a house without realizing that it had not a single closet in the entire house.

Later in the day, we gathered at home, had some lunch, and then Barb, Laura and Sarah Winberg arrived. Tyler and Amy were unable to join us for the afternoon. Barbara, Laura and Sarah gave us valuable lessons in the making of Sushi. We had a wonderful, fun time making and eating sushi before having a dinner of ham and scalloped potatoes. Ron was feeling the need for a long siesta, so missed a lot of the making process, but was available for the eating part. We were very sorry that Tyler and Amy and the children missed such a good time. Laura and Jessica met for the first time in person, and everyone enjoyed a good visit.

On Monday, Ron and I got up very early and took Reagan to the airport for her return flight to California. Monday was a fairly quiet day, trying to get organized for Biopsy Day tomorrow.

Now we are watching a program on lobotomy. Makes me feel pretty lucky today.