Friday

Feeling better after having a 24-hour bug of some kind that Danny shared with me! Getting ready to paint the dining room. It will finally be a real dining room! First, it was a wide open play place for Kevin and Danny. When Kevin was a toddler, we would put the baby gates on the doors in the dining room, and when Andrew got home from work, he would lay on the floor relaxing in that room while Kevin played all around him and "told" him, in his toddler words, about his day, while I cooked dinner. Later, it became "the computer room" with a big desk. At some point, we "inherited" the big mahogony bar from Gong Gong and Pop Pop; they had purchased it at an antiques auction, and when they moved to Kerrville, they didn't have the space for it, so we added it to our "dining room/computer room". When Danny moved to his college dorm, we moved the desk and computer into his old room (yes, now the computer can be viewed in complete privacy, without "MOM" walking by to check what is being viewed!). Now that Gong Gong and Pop Pop are downsizing to a retirement community apartment, we have inherited their dining room furniture, so we will finally have a REAL dining room! I'm looking forward to having family holiday dinners there!