The weekend started early with a spend-the-night at Out of Town Son's house. I was so glad to get a peek at the precious bump that is our newest granddaughter. DIL looks terrific! We are getting more excited with each passing day about meeting this new member of our family. By "we" I mean me. You know I looove the birth stories! Each one unique and, yes, miraculous.
On our way to the coast on Friday we stopped at a favorite watering hole, The Plaid Rhino, in Hattiesburg. The wait staff is always so friendly and our waitress brought us an unordered treat - fried pickles with remoulade sauce. These were the best friend pickles ever. Not too salty, just right.
We picked up Mom before we headed to Mimi's house. After supper Beach Boy and his family came over for a visit. Mimi has a well stocked toy compliment at her house for her grandson. Beach Boy's daughters had some fun.
Millie meets Elmo. And. Loved him.
Porch sitting at Mimi's is my favorite. Mom is 94. She is virtually deaf. That doesn't stop her from doing what she wants.
Mr. Macho, Mimi, and I drove to Biloxi to pick up 40lbs of crawfish for the Saturday afternoon feast. Mimi also cooked potatoes, corn, onions, garlic, mushrooms, and sausage in some crab boil. It was all delicious. Mimi's daughter's family came over for the feast. Marsha and one of her daughter's family came over, as well as Beach Boy and his family. We had a house full. Mom grazed on crawfish all afternoon long. We all did. Both nieces have beautiful children.
We had to put the crawfish on trays to cool off. They were just out the pot when we picked them up.
Mr. Macho sucking crawfish heads.
Sweet Pea and cousin, Eleanor, enjoying a book moment. They really got along well.
Sunday, after mass, we enjoyed a brunch at the local country club. After a quick cup of coffee we packed Mom up and drove her home. We had no specific plans in mind and wound up sitting on the deck at the yatch club sipping a beverage. It got chilly so we migrated to the car and took a driving tour of Bay St. Louis. We stopped at The Point to watch some wind surfers. Then headed to downtown Pass Christian to wait for our siblings. We enjoyed more beverages while we waited for Pete and Kaye, and Marsha. We dined at Hook's and were very delighted with our meal.
It is always sad to leave Mimi's house. She is the ultimate hostess. I feel at home in her house.
The good thing is that she and Marsha will be up here in a few weeks - it makes goodbye slightly easier when I know I will see them soon.
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Here we are in the midst of Holy Week. Instead of dance lessons last night we had a practice party. Today I am meeting friends for lunch. Thursday I have a garden club luncheon. Thursday night starts our Easter Triduum. It will be solemn. Part of our church tradition at our Good Friday service is to ask parish members that have had a death in their family during the past year to help carry the cross into the church. It is no small cross. I expect Paulette will help bear the cross this year.
A dear friend is being confirmed Saturday night and so we will break from our tradition of Easter Sunday Mass to attend the Vigil Mass.
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Happy Easter, evahbody!
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