Easter weekend. As always, Beth started planning the big family dinner for the big family gathering without seeming to realize that there is no big family and there would be 5 people here. Or that to actually do what she’s planned, that she would have to be on her feet in the kitchen cooking literally all day which is no longer an option. But to her credit, eventually the massive meal with the zillion entrees and side dishes did get pared down to just a few. She got some ham steaks for me to grill for everyone, and she cut out almost everything else. She did make a cranberry salad and some veggie and potato dishes, and we had Mary Jane over for dinner (brought the total to 5) and she brought her sweet potatoes. So was Easter dinner brought back down to earth. I think Beth would really like to be the matriarch hostess of a huge family but that is not in the cards.

Anyway, Missy came home for Easter weekend. She had some later classes, so she wasn’t home in time to go to the Good Friday service with us. The rest of us went out to Mad Anthony’s for dinner afterwards, intending to be home before Missy arrived, but not so. We had probably the slowest service ever – I think they forgot about us more than once – and in the end took everything to go since over an hour after ordering we still didn’t have anything. We took all the food to go and ran home so Missy wouldn’t be waiting for us locked out at home. Anyway, she stayed for the weekend, leaving a bit after the Easter Sunday services. Everyone’s in the home stretch for the college year now…