The Grandkids

Did you think I forgot my wonderful grandkids?
It is just that we have been seeing them on FaceTime and not in the flesh and blood. Adley loves to Face Time with us. The minute it comes on, she says, " where is Poppa"? I am not needed. One day, Jack was playing tennis and she kept asking for Poppa. So I went and got Joel to talk to her and she was quite happy. Nathan will FT us with his ITouch. And Mollie anyways has a word to get in with Nathan.
Mollie reading at the library.




That is some matching outfit Mollie put together.




Adley in the snow.




Adley eating ice cream.




Holden's basketball won. Here he is with his friends.




Mollie doing The Sabbath prayers at PreK.




She is wearing a scarf like a little old religious Jewish woman would.




Abe and Nathan ready for sports.




Sadie was in a fashion show at the American Girl. The only one that was a swim suit model. When she walked the runway, you could not see her face with the hat covering her pretty face. We have a video and she did not look nervous at all. She was smiling and singing the song. I do wish my body could be in two places at once. Sorry I miss so many things with the grandkids.




Emma is test driving Ellen 's new car. That girl does LOVE her coat and mittens. What is she going to do when the weather warms up?




Maya was invited to travel to Florida with a friend. Here she is in Disneyland.

Life on HHI

The P have a friend from China, Ching. She came to visit with her two college friends from China. They made us a seven course Chinese dinner that was perfect.



Nancy and Joel W are visiting. It is a little chilly on the beach.
We toured Savannah for a day. An antique store, lunch at Soho and ice cream at Leopolds. Go home, rest for one hour and to a friends for cocktails and dinner. Joel and Nancy were tired from all the activities during the visit. Every dinner was a happening with friends.



We had a picnic on the beach with fifteen friends. Everyone brought different foods and we stayed for the sunset.












Then we went back to our house to celebrate four March birthdays.
Jack, Joel, Ruth, Marsha



The next night we had more company for dinner and more birthday celebrating.


Joel, Jack and Paul sitting outside a store, while nancy and I shop.


Saying good bye to Paul as he left to head home at 7:00 AM.


The Little Couple on TLC TV. Jennifer Arnold and Bill Klein.
They are in China now adopting a three year old dwarf boy, like them. His name is Will and came from the New Hope Foster Home. I approve and think it is the best to adopt Will. But feel they should not put him on their TV show. They are filming in China. The shows new series will air in April. Jennifer is a neo natal pediatric Dr. I assume she will protect Will from the media.



The bike group lunches are growing with more eaters. But it does make it fun and a long afternoon with all the Cycle babbling.



Friday with Shirley, Ruth and Nancy.



We went to the Parade of Homes. We went gone five hours and only saw three homes. The house in Spanish Wells was so spectacular that we were there an inordinate long period of time.


Lunch was at Panera's. Nancy came home and started to pack. We went to Janice K for a lovely dinner Friday night. And at seven AM the W backed their car out of the driveway and headed north. That was a nine day visit with every minute busy.

The K family were to arrive on that Sat. But Abe had the flu. So they are one day late arriving.

Location:Hilton Head Island,United States

I had blog fog!

It is a long time since I blogged. I have learned a lesson. You have to keep up with it. When I let a few weeks go by without a blog, it became a chore to get caught up. So here are the last five weeks of info.
Jack and I had "The Cough". We were sick for two weeks and worn out. It required many naps, tissues and cough drops.
Laura and stu were in charge of a CDS Gala. Laura wore a beautiful new dress and they danced all night.
Here is Jen H. And laura working on the Gala.








Wayne Meadowcroft died. He was a good family member and missed by the family. Husband of Ferne and step father and grandfather of the Averbach kids.




Bob Margolis died from a long illness with Alzheimer's. husband of Betty Lou. Betty Lou is Jack 's first cousin.




Jack and I flew to NJ for a visit with the G. The week before Holden Had the croup and the flu. It was two trips to,the emergency room and two times to the doctor. At one point he said to Eve, he thought he was going to die.
He could not breathe and it was quite scary.
Then Adley got one more ear infection and they were seeing the doctor together. Adley also went to the emergency room. Eve looked all done in from all the sickness in the house.




Julie and Mitchell Cepler had their twins, Scarlett and Liam on Holden's birthday, Feb. 13. They both weighed 5lb.11 oz. and are healthy. We went into NYC to visit them. It took 2 1/2 hours, one train ride and two subways and a lot of walking to get there. It is a very nice apt. but small. There is a children's park right across from the apt. Which will be perfect for,them to run around. The babies are so little and sweet. Imagine raising twins in NYC. It sound like a nightmare to me.




This is Liam




This is Scarlett




Adley loves her grandparents and family. She wanted us to play with her the entire visit. One time, she yelled up the steps, Where are you grandma? She was waiting for me to play. She loves the kitchen and the large LEGOs.
We would build a tower and then hit it down and start all over again.




















We then took,the train from NJ to MD and a visit to the VH house.
We ate lunch at Wegman's and brought crab cakes in from Wegman's for dinner. This is the dining room at the store. Look at the groups at the kids table!








We took the girls to bowl. The girls had fun for about six times and then were ready for the big pretzels and drinks.
















Emma loves to play with us. We built towers and she would make it fall down. So in one weekend we played Lego towers with Adley and Emma.




Game playing.




Sadie








The best news of all, Emma is toilet trained. She does it ALL on the potty!




Jim bought a fire pit for the back yard and the girls were making Sam-ores.
It was quite cold outside but they were having fun.