Saturday, August 4 - Saturday, August 11, 2012
Saturday, August 4
As always,
the first thing we do when we return to Mineola is go by Wood Memorial to see
Edith.
Once home and rested, Randi could
hardly wait to chauffer her grandfather around to get the mail and once again
go visit with Granny. This time TJ was there so Jim captured that visit.
Saturday
night while stepping out of the pool at Terrell, Jim pulled something in his
knee and can barely walk. We can foresee a trip to the doctor in his immediate
future. However, this did not keep him from joining Randi and me at the table
to play games this evening.
Sunday, August 5-Saturday August 11
Between
driving, cooking, and Vacation Bible School, our week with Randi would fly by! 
Randi chose to participate in Vacation
Bible School at our church by helping with the Arts & Crafts. In no time at
all, she proved just how capable and responsible she could be! To say Jim and I
were proud to be able to say “that’s our granddaughter!” is certainly an
understatement!
From Sunday
to Wednesday, Jim found himself confined to the house under doctor’s orders. He
basically was told to “behave himself and rest that knee” after being given a
shot and some meds.
Therefore on Tuesday, I took Randi to
one of my favorite places, The Tea Room in Quitman where we enjoyed a wonderful
lunch and then some shopping for “bling.”
It took no
time at all for Randi to learn that evening visits with Granny included taking
her some special treat. What a joy to have a “cook” in the house besides me!
Thanks, Randi!
We learned a new recipe at VBS today
so Randi thought Granny should enjoy it.
Jim’s
delivering some banana bread to the staff at Wood Memorial. We are so blessed
to have such wonderful people to give Edith the care she needs and deserves.
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Big Red ice cream, 9’s, and Chicken Foot.
Great way to end a wonderful day!
2 or 3 large bottles of Big Red soda
2 cans of Eagle Brand Milk
4 or 5 mashed bananas
Dump all ingredients in the ice cream freezer and churn away. Yummy!
The week has
flown by!
Since we’ve
been so busy with VBS and Granny this week, we decided Friday night to take
Randi to Waco to stay in a motel and chill before delivering her to her parents
Saturday morning. Leah decided to drive over and join us. Fun times!
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While Jim was
getting ready Saturday morning, Randi “taught” me to put some “sass” in my
poses! 
Once we were
all ready, we drove over to Temple where we met John and Carol at IHOP for a
meal and the return of Randi.
During the
course of the meal, I think I finally made Randi blush with one of my comments.
Once we said
our good-byes to Randi, John, and Carol, Jim and I had to make a flying trip to
Richardson to return Abby and Alexander’s car seats and backpacks that
accidentally were left in Mineola.
Andy was out
of town but we found the kids and Heather puttering around the house after
making cookies. 
It seems only
appropriate that we end this journal entry with the same quote we used last
week since this was another wonderful week with another one of our
grandchildren.
It’s been a
great two weeks!“Grandchildren are God’s way of compensating us for growing old!” - Mary Waldrip
At home in
Mineola with beautiful memories,
Jim/Dad/Gramps
and Barbara/Mom/Grams