A Different Type of Week.

This week was a different type of a week. It had some fun days, home days, days of caring for others, and of course Bama sports. Love weeks with different days.

Planned but mostly didn't happen

Veggie meal TBD

Taco Salad 

BBQ chicken sandwich, caulitato salad

Beef and broccoli stir fry, rice

Grilled tuna steaks, coleslaw, potatoes 

Out to eat

Leftovers

Joys, and what we really ate:

Monday joy:  I was lucky to be able to go to my happy place Monday. Since the earliest appointment at Social Security was April 1, I was still not driving. Fortunately My Beloved Sister was going with me again and she was able to drive. 

While we were driving she told me to turn around and look behind me. A guy on a motorcycle had a helmet that looked just like Mr. Bill, the old SNL clay clown. Oh Nooooo!. We started laughing and kept saying Oh Nooo and laughing, until we were parked to go inside Independence Place.

I love seeing all my friends there and always leave happier than when I arrived.

The rest of the day was anti-climactic, except for one brief stop we made on the way home. I will refrain from telling what we did, but I will say it was nice to be able to go somewhere without TheHub driving me and knowing what I did. (We do not have secrets from each other, but sometimes chocolate calls and does not need outside witnesses)

Monday dinner: TheHub had some running around he needed to do and got back home close to dinner time. We made a joint decision to run to a local meat and 3 for dinner.

Stuffed bell pepper, turnip greens or okra, lima beans, creamed corn, turnip greens, cornbread

Tuesday joy: We spent the day at home doing home things, but also not doing some home things because I am a master at avoiding things I don't want to do. Hear that Christmas room of horrors.

I did have a phone calls with Sluggy which is always great, and another of my friends, who is not doing well. I keep telling her she reminds me of one of my grandmothers, who seemed to only talk about the sick, afflicted, and dying. 

For the record, though my knee hurts like a son of a gun sometimes, I am not falling to pieces like my Tennessee friend.

Tuesday dinner: Neither of us were terribly hungry but I did have some squash that needed to be cooked.

Squash casserole, sliced tomatoes, dinner roll

Wednesday joy: Son2 had some surgery on his hip so we went to the hospital to sit with his wife and to help if needed with transporting him after recovery. I am glad we did because he could not fit in their car with his leg straight. 

There are advantages to still be driving a soccer mom van. He could easily slide into the middle seat and keep his leg straight. I am not sure why they told him to do that, since his doc had said he could bend his knee.

Once he got home we ran out to grab them a few things from the grocery store and picked them up a little fast food. Son2  had only had crackers and juice in the recovery room and DIL2 had eaten nothing since a light breakfast. They both wanted grilled chicken sandwiches which we were more than happy to make happen. 

We unloaded groceries and their food, and made sure they needed nothing else before we headed home.

Wednesday dinner: We were hungry and grabbed a meal to eat at home when we were closer to our house..

Chicken, green beans, coleslaw

Thursday joy: We drove to Son2's house in case he needed help getting to rehab. We decided we had rather go and not be needed than to be needed and not be there. He managed quite well and did not need us to help him in and out of the car. 

While we were on his side of town we went to Aldi there. It is a much better store than the ones closest to me and has items I can't find near us. After shopping we had a late lunch, then stopped to pick up some ziti for DIL2 and Son2's dinner. 

We try to be good parents of adult sons, but  try harder to be an even better in-laws for our DILs. It's not a hard job since they are 3 wonderful women.

Once we got back to our house we took a quick snooze ( about 30 minutes) then got ready to go out for some entertainment.

The Secret Sisters performed at The Alys, backed by the Alabama Symphony Orchestra. What a show! They were wonderful singers who interacted with the audience the entire time.

A major hats off to whomever scored the orchestral arrangements. They obviously were a fan of low brass. The french horns, and trombones carried the orchestra, which is really unusual. I personally am a huge fan of the lower tones, and really liked hearing them back up the singers.

                                                    This is one of the songs they sang

Thursday dinner: We had not eaten dinner before the show so we grabbed a quick dinner from The Purple Onion.

Hamburger (me) Chicken finger plate (TheHub)

Friday joy: Son2 was doing well and we did not need to go to their house until much later in the day, and we only went then to take them some food for dinner. We mainly just hung around our house doing house things and laundry.

We made an appointment with our tv to watch Bama's softball game.

Friday dinner: This was the weekend for the annual Lebanese food festival at St. Elias church. We go every year and usually eat there to enjoy all the festivities, but this year, because we were getting takeout for DIL2 and Son2, we had our entire order to go. We managed to grab the food, run over to their house, get home and eat before the ball game.

Lemon chicken, rice, green beans, pita, stuffed grape leaves, spinach pie

Saturday joy: I stayed home all day mostly reading, while TheHub did some running around to exciting places like Home Depot. 

Saturday night we watched Alabama softball.

Saturday dinner: The softball game was scheduled for 8 pm and we knew we wanted to eat before hand, but I did not want to cook.

Assorted leftovers including, grape leaves, spinach pie, lamb, mashed potatoes, sliced tomatoes, sliced cucumbers

Sunday joys: We woke, dressed and went to our communion service, 8:30 church, then Sunday school. We got home for an early lunch and did a few chores (laundry and other things)  before settling in to watch Alabama softball sweep the series.

A few other chores, a quick dinner and we headed out to see Aly Stroker. I am sad for people from Birmingham who missed her. It was an incredible evening. 

She combined telling her life story paired with songs in a powerful performance.  I was blown away. We were able to be part of the meet and greet afterward, and she was completely charming with the crowd. 

If you live wherever she might be and you have a chance, by all means go see her. It was more than worth the financial and time investment. 

If she is ever back here we will be going again. If /when she is cast in another Broadway show we will make a trip to NYC to see her in that too!

Sunday dinner: We had a quick meal before leaving for the show. Thanks to Aldi for this quick meal.

Chicken pad Thai

Planned for the week (maybe, possibly or probably not)

1. Take out or out to eat

2. Veggie dinner TBD

3. Spaghetti, tossed salad

4. BBQ chicken sandwich

5. Pasta salad or pasta with pesto

6. Grilled tuna steaks, baked potato, coleslaw

7. Meatloaf, collards or coleslaw, new potatoes, 

Books read in April:

Listen  for the Lies

What I Ate in One Year

Sandwich

Falling up

The Second Chance

The Violin Conspiracy

Wrong Place, Wrong Time

Have a great week staying on plan, going off plan, or with no plan at all.

May all your weeds be wildflowers.

Anne