Family Time

We were blessed last week to have some time with each of our grandchildren. Of course, our activities were somewhat restricted by my continued health limitations, but we had some good quality time in our apartment and even managed to get out a couple of times.

We drove up to Sharon on Sunday and got ourselves settled. On Monday we got together with Joshua with a main goal of going through the annual baseball card collection. In the past this was just an activity for Joshua and Barry but they let me help out this time.

Then we watched the NBA all star game (which we had taped for this purpose), and played a couple of games of Rummikub which Joshua always wins!

On Monday evening we did something we have not done in a very, very long time (maybe since before our daughters were both married) – just the four of us went out to dinner together. It was really such a special time to have together and we promised ourselves not to wait another twenty years to do it again!

We spent Tuesday morning with Ella and, in the afternoon, Julia came over along with Eliana to play games and work on a jigsaw puzzle we had bought for her.

Wednesday morning, Noah came over to play, with Eliana along as well. He has the attention span of a typical two-year-old so we jumped from one activity to another but everyone had lots of tun.

That afternoon, we squeezed the three older children in the back seat of our car and went to a local movie theater to see “A Dog’s Way Home.” The theater where it was playing is set up like a café where they show movies. This started as an activity for Maya, who loves movies about dogs, but the other girls decided to come along with us. After the movie, as if no one had ingested quite enough sugar during the movie, we stopped for ice cream.

Dina and family left for Florida on Thursday, and I will write more about that on my next post.

Meanwhile, on Thursday Barry went with Eliana to see “Lego Movie 2,” which Eliana thoroughly enjoyed, while Maya and I spent some quiet time, including working on one of the science kits we had somehow never put together from a couple of years ago.

Simmie, Ronen, Maya, and a friend came over for Shabbat lunch and spent the afternoon while Eliana went to the home of a friend. Then on Sunday we made our way back to New York.

I am still in recovery mode from the very busy week. But I have already compiled my pictures (not as many as I used to take, but hopefully enough) and am just about finished with a photo book for the week.

Stay well and keep warm!

Love,

Rebecca