EASTER

Hello, friends!  Hope you are all having a wonderful day!  I will do another post telling you about my surgery but just to let you know that things are moving along.  It was a week ago yesterday.  Swallowing and eating has been rough.  But each day it gets a little better.  I am still on soft food for a few more days, but soon I will be able to eat anything.  Within reason of course.  Thank you so much for all your prayers and well wishes.  That means a lot to me.

But let me tell you about Easter.  We had a breakfast at church before our morning service.  My friend, Donna, came.  I haven't seen her in awhile so it was good to get a chance to catch up.

 

There was scrambled eggs with cheese, hash brown potatoes with cheese, bacon, sausage, bagels with cream cheese and fruit salad.  Orange juice too.  I couldn't eat any of it.  I brought my own baby oatmeal which Joe had bought for me and ate that instead along with a cup of tea.

The service was great.  We always have Pastor Dan Allen as our guest speaker on Easter.  He is so good.  The singing was good too.

I took Donna home and then Joe and I got ready to go out for lunch/dinner.  Our good friend Carole was going too and she picked us up.  We went to a diner we all like and met up with the rest of my family and a couple of friends.  Joe's stepmother went too.  Sorry I can't show you any pictures, but I never pulled out my camera.  We were just enjoying ourselves.  Sometimes that is more important than getting the shot.

I ordered a tuna salad thinking it would be something I could eat.  But what I got was not what was on the menu.  The tuna was dry and there were lots of veggies that I'm not up to eating yet.  I ended up eating most of Joe's mashed potatoes, some of his stuffing (he got a turkey dinner) and took the rest of my salad home.  Joe ate it for lunch today.

I had a great time talking with my brother and sister.  I almost never see them and it was good to just be able to sit together and gab.

When we took my mother-in-law home, she gave me a gift bag.  I was not expecting that.  Let me show you what was inside.

She gave me hand sanitizer, hand cream, a pretty candle that smells of oranges and lemons, a package of fudge, a box of Peeps (my family know me so well), and a pair of Peeps socks.

My sister gave me an Easter gift too.  She put it in the cutest furry bunny basket.

A little bag of chocolate eggs and two packages of Peeps.  One was chocolate dipped and one was party cake.  There was one other surprise gift.  It was something I had been wanting.

She found a pair of sunglasses to replace the ones that had broken.  I am so happy.  It even came with a little cloth bag.

Joe gave me two boxes of Peeps and two packages of peanut butter cups.  (I am in Peeps heaven right now.)  He also bought me a dozen red roses.

I am one fortunate girl to have all of these things given to me.  I certainly didn't expect it.  The best part though, was spending the time with my family and friends.

Hope you all had a wonderful Easter also.  I will be back soon.

Kathy