Look who surprised us last week with a special visit!!
We love Mrs. Susan! She sure does spoil us on our birthdays!!
Have a great weekend!
More birthday celebrations
For my birthday Robert nicely made dinner reservations! Woohoo! We went out to Bricktop’s on Tuesday night because Wednesday was football and Thursday was cheerleading! I didn’t care when we went out and was just glad we got to go!
We had a great dinner as always and made lots of wishes!
I was even good enough to get a few presents including this just right coffee mug that Maxwell picked out all by himself! Sweet boy.
Robert got me a crockpot. Thankfully he also got me a very, very nice piece of jewelry to go with the crockpot! 🙂 Not sure I had been good enough for that but I’m not complaining!! My crew sure does love me and makes me feel special on my special day! Lucky me!
Birthday celebrations
Last week we had a low key but good celebration of Robert’s birthday!
We just made dinner at home – roasted chicken, his request! – and opened some gifts. Brothers will be brothers…
We celebrated with a good dessert and big wishes for another great year!
Happy Birthday Robert!
We love you!
Augusta
We made the drive to Augusta on Friday afternoon and had what really was a great weekend with family, all things considered. The cousins all got to hang out…
Uno was played, of course!
We got a decent family photo…
and we got to recreate some classics!
The kids left their mark in Augusta by carving their initials into a tree in Susu’s yard. Love it.
The service for Susu was lovely. We just did a graveside service and the sun was shining with a nice breeze. There was quite a crowd and it was so nice to hear from people how beloved Susu was.
There is lots of cleaning out to do in her house and while it is a lot of work, it was fun to open drawers and unearth some treasures. One treasure we found was her wedding dress – the dress that she made herself in 1946! Wow! Also, Susu was tiiiiiny! I could get it on – barely – but it wasn’t zipping up!
GJ is carrying the weight of cleaning out the house and working so hard to get it all done. I don’t know how she does it all but I sure am proud of her and wish I could help some more.
Overall it was a nice weekend celebrating the one and only Susu! I think she’d be proud that we even managed to get this crew to pose for a big ole family photo!
We love you Susu!
Susu sewed it
In the pictures I have seen of my mom when she was a little girl, she was always very well dressed. While I would never call Susu fancy, she clearly took great pride in presentation and knew how to dress her daughter well. An excellent seamstress, I’m pretty sure she sewed each of those beautiful dresses herself. I was lucky as a little girl to get to wear some beautiful dresses that Susu made for me. When people would compliment my dress, I would proudly say “Susu sewed it!” The phrase stuck and my mom even had tags made that said “Susu sewed it” to put inside my dresses.
Not only did Susu sew, but she made all sorts of beautiful things with her hands. My Santa cookie jar that she painted is a work of art. The dish cloths she knit with her hands are staples in my kitchen. I might argue that one of the most beautiful things she made with her hands was her potato salad, but that’s just a personal opinion! So many of my memories of Susu seem to be around her creating, crafting, and sewing things – helping my mom hem a dress or sew a costume or knitting sweaters and hats for each of my babies. Susu sewed it!
Isn’t that really a pretty accurate description of her life? She took all the joys and heartaches of life, the good times and tough times, and sewed them together. She sewed them with strength and smiles, with a little bit of worry, and lots and lots of love. Susu sewed together a pretty awesome family and a wonderful long life that we were all just lucky enough to be a part of. Susu sewed it.