I Suck At Family Day

Sunday turned out to be quite the family day. Too bad I suck at family day. By no means was the day planned to be a family day. It just sort of turned out that way.

The day started off with a call from Karen's mother asking if we would be interested in visiting Karen's grandmother at the nursing home. Naturally, we thought it was a great idea because we have not seen Nana in some time.

Since my son (Braden) passed away over two years ago, one of the things I have learned is that time is precious. To be more precise, I would say that time with loved ones is precious. And even though Nana is not like how she was before her accident, which led to her subsequent stay at the nursing home, I think it's important that we spend time with her.

Granted, Nana probably could care less about Karen or I. It seems like every time we go for the visit, all she wants to do is see her sixteen month old great granddaughter (Briana). Of course, that seems to be the going trend among my parents and my in-laws too.

Nevertheless, it was a good visit at the nursing home. Nana was actually quite alert. And she seemed to enjoy watching Briana walk around and getting into things. So following the visit, my in-laws decided to take us out for dinner.

We ended up at the 99 Restaurant in Quincy. I was hopeful to be seated near the picture of Karen at the 99, but it was not meant to be. For anyone curious, Karen appears (or at least she did at one time) in one of the group pictures hanging on the wall. If memory serves me right, I think the picture was actually signed by manother person in the group photo.

Dinner was good. By the time the food came around, I was actually starving. So I'm sure anything would have tasted good at that point. I devoured the All-Star Steakburger with reckless abandon. Yummy yummy, as my daughter says.

Anyway, while still in Quincy, Karen suggested that we make it a total family day and make the rounds to see my parents. So off to my parents we went. And like I mentioned earlier, my parents were positively thrilled by our visit because they got to see Briana. Truth to told, it was nice to know that we probably did just make their day by visiting them.

And of course, my parents had to give us something. They seem to always give us something or want to give us something whether it is food, plants or whatever whenever they see us. In general, it's food. This time was no different as we ended up with some celery plants from their garden.

All in all, it was a good spontaneous day with the family which is something I probably don't utter too often. But I think my in-laws and my parents totally enjoyed the time spent together and that makes me happy.