(Misty May-Treanor visits the sick room, Photo Credit: ©G. Pi'ianaia)Tuesday arrives sunny and warm with a good chance of visitors. Mom has eaten some egg for the first time and, rather defiantly (more on that theme to come) after Sister A cajoled her with visions of high-calorie bites, chomped one of 3 small celery sticks with peanut butter and announced, "There, 40 calories."
Uncle J and Aunties C and I arrive bearing goodies and chat. Long-time friends (Auntie C - mom's college roommate at Michigan State) and fellow sports nuts, much of the talk is about current tennis games, the possibility of going to the US Open next year, the Olympics and the Special Olympics. Aunties I and C were inordinately proud of the gold medals they "won" at bowling in the Special Olympics. For the record, they are not developmentally challenged (that I know of) so I'm still unclear on how they snagged 2 gold medals. I fervently hope there are not 2 crying kids out there, looking for their medals.
Later in the day I received a photo in a text message from Sister A. The pic showed; Sister A, tall, large woman in sarong-thingie, and mom, arms around each other, smiling, with the message, "Guess who we found sitting at the bus stop?" (There's one in front of my parents' house). I couldn't really see the face of the middle person so I texted back, "A giantess?"
Later, I spoke with Sister A who told me that Uncle G brought family friend and Beach Volleyball gold medalist Misty May-Treanor and her husband, pro baseball player, Matt Treanor over to the house to visit with mom. I'm not sure if MM-T was wearing her gold medal with jade from the Beijing Olympics but I'm sure mom was a happy camper, in her element talking about sports with pros. By the way, MM-T is only 5'9" - pretty short for a vb player but gigantic next to most women in our clan.
Uncle J and Aunties C and I arrive bearing goodies and chat. Long-time friends (Auntie C - mom's college roommate at Michigan State) and fellow sports nuts, much of the talk is about current tennis games, the possibility of going to the US Open next year, the Olympics and the Special Olympics. Aunties I and C were inordinately proud of the gold medals they "won" at bowling in the Special Olympics. For the record, they are not developmentally challenged (that I know of) so I'm still unclear on how they snagged 2 gold medals. I fervently hope there are not 2 crying kids out there, looking for their medals.
Later in the day I received a photo in a text message from Sister A. The pic showed; Sister A, tall, large woman in sarong-thingie, and mom, arms around each other, smiling, with the message, "Guess who we found sitting at the bus stop?" (There's one in front of my parents' house). I couldn't really see the face of the middle person so I texted back, "A giantess?"
Later, I spoke with Sister A who told me that Uncle G brought family friend and Beach Volleyball gold medalist Misty May-Treanor and her husband, pro baseball player, Matt Treanor over to the house to visit with mom. I'm not sure if MM-T was wearing her gold medal with jade from the Beijing Olympics but I'm sure mom was a happy camper, in her element talking about sports with pros. By the way, MM-T is only 5'9" - pretty short for a vb player but gigantic next to most women in our clan.
Thank you friends, for your thoughtfulness, your selves and your generous offers of assistance. Oh, and the laughter.
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