Kicking It In Darien With The Grandkids For A Day

48 Years Together... It's Gone Too Fast

Up at 6:10, my usual time, to another warm day in Darien, in the high 80's if not 90 like yesterday though with air conditoning, you don't notice much unless you happen to venture outside.  I was the first one up and actually figured out how to make the coffee, no easy task anymore with this coffee pot, which grinds as well as brews in the morning.  My short term memory worked well enough for me to remember from the last time we were here in June.  Bravo.

Yesterday we celebrated out 48th wedding anniversary by driving across New York State to the Albarrans.  It was an easy but seemingly endless drive for both of us, perhaps because we have taken it so many times in the past seven or eight years or we had just driven it in June.  Anyways, lots of fog for the first couple of hours or more, all the way to Corning before it burned off.  We left at 7:00, got to Beth's around 2;30, to be met by the barking, then wagging tail of Cody, and the kids running out of the house to give us a hug.  It wasvery warm so we relaxed in the house the rest of the afternoon, after taking our bags in, talking with the kids and Beth though Marisa, Mitch and I did take Cody out for a walk, something I try to do a couple of times a day to Cody's obvious delight.

Celebrating Our Anniversary with Our Grandchildren

We helped Beth put together a special dinner for us, a crispy, sticky citrus flavored chicken, from Bully chef Gordon Ramsey, and we celebrated out anniversary with a special banana/peanut butter cream pie for dessert, made by Tyler, who is becoming quite the pie chef.  After dinner, we gave Marisa her belated birthday present, a poster of  photos of her, from years one to ten, put together by Evie and really neat.

Marisa With Her New Poster

At dusk, I took Cody out for a night walk, had to jump out of the way of truck turning into the street, and enjoyed the full moon walk.  When I got back, all the adults  were tired and went to bed early, around 10:00 though the boys stayed up, watching TV or playing games on the computer. I can remember when Evie and I first started going to bed before our kids, just about the time our kids were college age.  It made me think of the innocent, good old days in Turkey where all three of our kids always went to be at 8:00, regardless of their age but then, there was no TV, radio, computer or Internet, just a book to keep you interested.  Ah Nostalgia!