It's another late Sunday night and also my favorite time of night when the rest of the fam is tucked in and drifting off to sleep, while I have some quiet time to myself. I love this time of the day!
On a typical Sunday evening myself, my husband "Tom" and our 3 year old daughter "Suri" would be heading home from my In-laws after another wonderful dinner of Sunday Sauce spent with my Mother and Father-In-Laws, my husbands uncle and sometimes my sister-in-law and her fiance. We would all have full tummies by around 9pm, after all of the food, conversation and coffee with dessert. Then say our goodbyes until next week.
But this Sunday was different. No sauce on the stove. Instead we were visiting my Father-In-Law in the hospital, where he has been recovering from an extensive back surgery where the surgeon spent 7 hours fusing together 3 disks. He is doing very well after the operation and we will all be happy to see him back on his feet again, hopefully within enough time for our family cruise we have planned for April 24th. Maybe with a lot of good rehab therapy and if the surgery works as hoped, Dad will be back on the golf course again someday, having a relaxing game with his brother and son.
The Grammy's just recently ended over my right shoulder on the tv my daughter usually watches all of her daily Noggin shows on. I thought it was a tastefully done show. Nothing to elaborate this year as far as I could tell. If I missed something juicy, please comment on here though. He He.
There were some amazing dresses and gowns for such a normally semi-formal/casual awards show. I loved Taylor Swifts blue dress. One of my favorite singers, who took home her first not one but two Grammy's! Congratulations. The best performance in my opinion of the evening was the final one performed by Mary J. Blige and Andrea Bocelli in a special fund-raising segment for Haitian relief. Very good!
Tomorrow morning my husband may be getting called in to work early to help with the Haiti passengers who arrive via the National Guard to expedite them on their way to the hospitals or Red Cross shelters they will be transported to. I feel a need to help in a bigger way than just donating cash or sending some extra blankets to Red Cross. (I actually don't even have any extra blankets to hand out anyway) My husband warns me that although it's a nice thought, I wouldn't want to see all of the children and adults who have been tragically burned or crushed or both and are all bandaged up and in a mess. It would be too hard on me? I guess so. Yes. But I will be doing some research on what other areas of volunteer efforts may be needed for in the future, when all of these people will be needing to live here or somewhere int he U.S. for the next two years or even longer. I'll keep you all posted on that.
As for tomorrow, it's another Monday taking our daughter to daycare. She attends a Lutheran Church day care three days a week from 9 to noon. I like it better than the huge and overcrowded Discovery Point she used to attend full time a year ago. This class only has one to two teachers and a total of 5 kids. I actually volunteer every Wednesday to help ease our costs for her tuition. More about my days duties tomorrow night. Until then happy trails to all and good night.
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