Fun With Mom and Charles
So.....Mom, Charles and the kids arrived around noon on Wednesday. Charles, who had driven all night, was trashed so crashed immediately. Dylan called Ellen to see if she would drive down from White Marsh to pick them up and then Mom, I and the kids walked down to the Coffeehouse for lunch and so I could show them the GGRF exhibit. Although the kids were skeptical about the menu choices....too unusual for their experience...everyone found something they thought they would like and we had a lovely lunch. On the way back, Ellen called to say she was almost at the house so she was walking back up Jocelyn to meet us as we turned the corner to walk down. She took the kids and Mom and I settled in for a restful afternoon while Charles slept. We woke him when Jim got home and he, Jim and I went to 4912 for dinner. Mom was too tired to go out again so settled for a bowl of cereal and was already in bed when we got back around 7:30 or 8:00.
Thursday Mom and I went down to Dupont Circle to tour the Woodow Wilson house (http://www.woodrowwilsonhouse.org/). We were the only two during the entire time our docent was taking us around and spent at least two hours...I think it was more. But the docent was willing to talk about any and everything in every room and we discussed historical and political questions as well....and ended with a long discussion including the woman who operated the gift shop. We then walked the few blocks to Connecticut Avenue and I decided we should have lunch at Bistro Du Coin (http://www.bistrotducoin.com/)...I had French onion soup and Mom had a frisee salad with warm goat cheese. She couldn't finish hers so we packed it up and brought it over to Jim and visited him at his office for about half an hour or so and then headed back home for a rest. Charles had raked up the leaves in the back yard and so he finished bagging them and after some conversation among the three of us about recent events, he and I went to have an early dinner at the Green Papaya. I mixed up some tuna salad for Mom and Jim before I left and we brought back some spring rolls for Jim, who was just too tired to go out. Mom wasn't interested.
Friday was a rainy day, but since we hadn't gone to Curves on Thursday, Mom and I went over there first thing and then stopped at Whole Foods on Wisconsin to pick up some soup for lunch and something for dinner. Decided to make salmon with yogurt dill sauce so got that, some delicious rolls, some mashed sweet potatos....When we got home, we ate some lunch and got Charles and went over to the Avalon to see "The Queen" starring Helen Mirren. It was quite interesting! We all thought so. Made and ate dinner a little early and was feeling really poooped, so just took a bath and went to bed.
Yesterday it was beautiful again, so we took advantage of the weather. The house was filthy and cluttered, so I got everyone scurrying around early, cleaning, and Jim decided to rent a carpet cleaner and do the rugs so he and Charles scrubbed not only the big one in the livingroom, but all the little ones that don't go into the machine. They worked on the front porch and it was so beautiful, sunny and a little windy, that even the big one was dry by the time we went over to Strosnider's to return it and had brunch at The Louisisana Express. I picked up a chicken from Magruder's and some potato salad and cole slaw from the Safeway when I shopped for Christmas turkey and fixin's; we ate early; and then Mom and I headed to the Kennedy Center to see "Shear Madness" which I had gotten tickets for as her xmas present. It was really quite fun. Jim took Charles and they went shopping....R.E.I., Home Depot, Ikea, and then Safeway for ice cream. Everyone had a lovely evening.
Beautiful again today, so Jim went out for a bike ride; I started cleaning up the side yard and Jim and Charles worked more on it and cleaned up under the deck after doing the gutters when Jim got home. Mom and I are going to try to get tickets to the 6 p.m. service at the National Cathedral tonight and if we can Jim and Charles are going to take Jim's sleeping bag and a couple of rugs to the laundromat near there and wash them while we are there. Then we're going to meet them at Cactus Cantina around 7 for dinner. Tomorrow I'll cook a turkey and make some stuffing and mashed potatoes, squash, green beans, gravy....Monday we may go up to White Marsh to have breakfast, lunch or dinner with the kids before Charles and Mom pick them up on the 27th to go to Georgia to visit Andrew and Holly and their kids. We'll get back to "normal" around here.
Merry Christmas everyone!
Thursday Mom and I went down to Dupont Circle to tour the Woodow Wilson house (http://www.woodrowwilsonhouse.org/). We were the only two during the entire time our docent was taking us around and spent at least two hours...I think it was more. But the docent was willing to talk about any and everything in every room and we discussed historical and political questions as well....and ended with a long discussion including the woman who operated the gift shop. We then walked the few blocks to Connecticut Avenue and I decided we should have lunch at Bistro Du Coin (http://www.bistrotducoin.com/)...I had French onion soup and Mom had a frisee salad with warm goat cheese. She couldn't finish hers so we packed it up and brought it over to Jim and visited him at his office for about half an hour or so and then headed back home for a rest. Charles had raked up the leaves in the back yard and so he finished bagging them and after some conversation among the three of us about recent events, he and I went to have an early dinner at the Green Papaya. I mixed up some tuna salad for Mom and Jim before I left and we brought back some spring rolls for Jim, who was just too tired to go out. Mom wasn't interested.
Friday was a rainy day, but since we hadn't gone to Curves on Thursday, Mom and I went over there first thing and then stopped at Whole Foods on Wisconsin to pick up some soup for lunch and something for dinner. Decided to make salmon with yogurt dill sauce so got that, some delicious rolls, some mashed sweet potatos....When we got home, we ate some lunch and got Charles and went over to the Avalon to see "The Queen" starring Helen Mirren. It was quite interesting! We all thought so. Made and ate dinner a little early and was feeling really poooped, so just took a bath and went to bed.
Yesterday it was beautiful again, so we took advantage of the weather. The house was filthy and cluttered, so I got everyone scurrying around early, cleaning, and Jim decided to rent a carpet cleaner and do the rugs so he and Charles scrubbed not only the big one in the livingroom, but all the little ones that don't go into the machine. They worked on the front porch and it was so beautiful, sunny and a little windy, that even the big one was dry by the time we went over to Strosnider's to return it and had brunch at The Louisisana Express. I picked up a chicken from Magruder's and some potato salad and cole slaw from the Safeway when I shopped for Christmas turkey and fixin's; we ate early; and then Mom and I headed to the Kennedy Center to see "Shear Madness" which I had gotten tickets for as her xmas present. It was really quite fun. Jim took Charles and they went shopping....R.E.I., Home Depot, Ikea, and then Safeway for ice cream. Everyone had a lovely evening.
Beautiful again today, so Jim went out for a bike ride; I started cleaning up the side yard and Jim and Charles worked more on it and cleaned up under the deck after doing the gutters when Jim got home. Mom and I are going to try to get tickets to the 6 p.m. service at the National Cathedral tonight and if we can Jim and Charles are going to take Jim's sleeping bag and a couple of rugs to the laundromat near there and wash them while we are there. Then we're going to meet them at Cactus Cantina around 7 for dinner. Tomorrow I'll cook a turkey and make some stuffing and mashed potatoes, squash, green beans, gravy....Monday we may go up to White Marsh to have breakfast, lunch or dinner with the kids before Charles and Mom pick them up on the 27th to go to Georgia to visit Andrew and Holly and their kids. We'll get back to "normal" around here.
Merry Christmas everyone!
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