November 12, 2009

Wednesday 11~~~~~Thresa stopped by this morning and had coffee with me and helped me frost sugar cookies for my dinner party tonight for my girl friends at the beauty shop I used to work at. We have been trying to get together at my house for a long time and we finally did it. The girls came over around 5 PM, we had a lime daiquiri before dinner and looked at Helen's pictures of her recent trip to England. I made a dish that Kent likes to eat at the Olive Garden, rottelli pasta with "Italian" sausage, peppers, onions and mushrooms, a garden salad and french bread. Nancy brought the dressing for the salad, as she makes it the "best". We had vanilla bean ice cream with my special sugar cookies for dessert. My daughter Pammy joined us for dinner, as we planned to play cards and we needed an extra player. After dinner we started playing "hand and foot" card game, two of the girls were new to the game, so Pammy was kept busy helping them get started. We ate more cookies and drank coffee as we played and we sure had fun. We decided to do it again before Kent and I hit the road again. Pammy, Pat and Nancy had to work the next day, so we didn't play too long. Kent went to the movies and he showed up just in time to tell everyone goodbye.
Thursday 12~~~~I babysat for Thresa while she attended a cooking class tonight. She had a roast with carrots and potatoes all ready in the crock pot and all I had to do was make the gravy. I love to make roast beef gravy, as we made a lot of it growing up on the farm and I make a pretty good gravy if I say so myself. After dinner and dishes, Bodie and Blaize read some books and we played the monkey game before they had to go to bed. It really rained hard tonight, I am so glad Kent and I got the gutters cleaned the other day when it was so nice outside.