The Daily Adventures of Leia & Annie: January 2023

Friday, January 27, 2023

Umi with My Girls

Monday, January 23, 2023

Papa's Hospital & Rehab Visit 2023 : THIS is Love

At Mission hospital for high blood sugar, here are mom & dad: evidence of true love. And mom's response to dad's question every few minutes (from now until his death): "Can you please scratch my back?" ... Amid the most beautiful view from a hospital EVER!

Then dad had a rehab stay of about 2 months at The Lodge in Mills River where he had his own room! April and I tried to make it as warm as we could for him and took mom every day. The saddest thing about this rehab visit is that we were trying to encourage Papa to do his physical therapy so that he could go home, & he replied, "Isn't this home?"

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Little Bello

... and when you know he's REALLY asleep ...

Friday, January 13, 2023

Celebrating Annie's Grades at PF Changs

Thursday, January 12, 2023

Driving Crosscountry 2020 : Souvenirs

Although this picture does not do it Justice, this was the absolute best souvenir idea ever! I took a trowel and lots of plastic bags and in every state or interesting place we visited, I dug out the bag of soil. When we got back, I bought these large tall vases and we added about an inch of each soil on top of each other from the 1st layers on the bottom to the more recent layers on the. From bottom to top Here are the layers: Atlantic ocean Edisto Beach South Carolina. Lake Murray South Carolina. The Clower home place Pickens South Carolina. Graceland in Memphis Tennessee. The Mississippi river bank Tennessee. Arkansas. Missouri. Kansas. Rocky mountains in Denver, Colorado. Great basin Utah. Arches natural park Utah. Bonneville salt flats Utah. Nevada. Redwood forest California. Portland Oregon. Pacific Ocean and Rockaway Beach Oregon.

And for a second souvenir, and the one I received many compliments on, i bought 2 leather backpacks and had a professional cobbler sew on a patch for each state or interesting place we've visited. I would add to this for years and years, even adding patches for Edisto Beach beach and Hawaii.

Driving Crosscountry 2020 : The Flight Home

Over the long flight back, it was so exciting to see so many landmarks we saw from the ground. I even spent some time finding specific shaped lakes on Google Maps!