After a rough Thursday, I decided I need a brighter post to start the weekend.
My bonus granddaughter at the lamp lighting ceremony at her nursing school. She is currently working third shift as a nursing assistant in the ER at our local hospital while attending nursing school during the day. She is a hard worker and so very very kind. She will be a wonderful nurse. I think she graduates in May of 2027.
This has really brightened my day. It seems that a caterer in a nearby town bought a shuttered restaurant about a year ago and turned it into a catering facility with optional hall rental. AND in January she is starting a monthly tea party on the third Sunday. This was my original retirement plan - going to tea parties!
And starting last fall, she opened the hall for a limited lunch on weekdays (one special pictured above).
Another photo stolen from her facebook page. How I missed this I will never know. I am obviously not getting out enough!
I have already talked my high school friends into a lunch date there in two weeks. And I am looking for people who are free on the date of the tea party. I will report back!
Tomorrow I am joining my library retiree friends (I worked at our local library for about 10 years) for lunch. I was the youngest of the group so it is very important for me to attend and visit with my friends.
Thank you Mary Engelbreit and Dr King.
And after lunch my local Indivisible has a town hall scheduled. This took a lot of planning and donations and organization to rent a hall, donations of money and time and equipment from people to set up and take down, provide security, provide a sound system, a calm well-spoken moderator and a slate of candidates for state elections who are willing to come to our rural county so we can meet them. Of course members of the ruling party were all invited too but I guess they don't know where we live, how to use a telephone, fax or the internet to respond or decline.
It is going to conflict with the spontaneous marches and vigils that are now scheduled all over my corner of the state and I hope it is more than the organizers, me and the candidates.
And this is how my grandson arrived this morning (photo taken at home with their tree). He wasn't ready to get up and these are his portable night-time glasses.
Glad to see some of that ol' Miss Merry back :^) Your bonus granddaughter (what's a bonus granndaughter?) sounds very impressive, I've been to the ER enough to know how wonderful those nurses are. Your foodie pics looked so delicious and glad to hear you'll be getting to attend some tasty tea parties! (I'd rather sit at home and eat tuna out of a can, but that's me.) Your civic things sound impressive as always, and a nice pic of your not-ready-for-morning grandson!
ReplyDeleteLove the photos, things can still be beautiful in the world. Yesterday evening, when I was coming through our little town on the way home...I was surprised by all the people holding signs and ringing cow bells in protest of what is going on. They were on all 4 corners of our second light in town. I was proud of the amount of people that were out there.
ReplyDeleteNursing school! What a great calling!
His portable Nighttime Glasses, hilarious, he's got Swagger, that Kid! *LOL, Adorbs* Hope that Town Hall goes well since so many Invested in Hosting it. Those Food Porn Images, mouth watering, that's the kind of place I'd frequent too. It's good you have groups of Friends you can attend with, here, that's a thing of the Past for me. I enjoyed it when I had Friends who liked doing it together. Now everyone either moved away, passed away, or I just don't Socialize with coz of my particular circumstances making the logistics of scheduling anything Social too uncertain and unpredictable to Honor.
ReplyDeleteCute grandson!
ReplyDeleteHooray for your bonus granddaughter. Being a nurse isn't easy in many ways, but so rewarding.
I love the lunch and tea party idea. The food looks amazing!
Your grandson has style! You live in an interactive community. I worked in a hospital as an aid while I was in college. Health care is hard work and rewarding work.
ReplyDeleteMiss Merry, Congrats to your bonus granddaughter for her chosen profession. Our 2 daughter-in-laws are nurses and I'm proud of them both... caring for people is a wonderful calling... and not easy. And working in the ER ! We watch The Pit on TV and those doctors and nurses are something else. Also the food pics you posted are wonderful! I love tea parties and lunches - but don't do much of that anymore. Good luck with the Town Hall meeting! (Also... cute kid!)
ReplyDeleteResearching for my next post I learned a lot about the group Indivisible. And I'm impressed. I'm glad you got to see them in action locally.
ReplyDeleteI love your "food porn" photos. I so love tea parties! My niece throws one every few months for her grandchildren---the boys and the girls---which in her words is "a fun way to teach etiquette and manners.
That's a great photo of your bonus granddaughter and the last one of your grandson. ( I laughed at the last one.) Ha! Our daughter is a nurse and it takes a special person to be a good one.
ReplyDeleteI wish I were closer. I would go to lunch AND tea with you. That's one thing I really miss about the UK. We had tea every afternoon. Not as fancy as yours but a cuppa and a biscuit (cookie) every afternoon around 4:00. I've been to high tea at fancy hotels in London and that is really something else. I don't fit in well being an average, everyday person who wears homemade clothes! :-)
Blessings and hugs,
Betsy
Congrats for the upcoming in-the-family nurse! It's really tough out there. Cool Joe for the grandson. Gee, I needed those glasses when I worked nights as an RN. Linda in Kansas
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