My Men With A Pan – Father’s Day Musings
June 19, 2011 | by DianaI’m reading Man with a Pan
My Grandfather
My Grandfather lived upstairs from us during most of our formative years. They owned the building and while we were growing up, we were the only ones living on the other floors. My grandfather loved to garden, so we shared those chores and the bounty. My grandmother owned a toy and card store on Broadway, and went to work in the morning and came home in the late evening even after my grandfather retired. When he retired it was his job to cook dinner every night for the both of them, then he would pick my grandmother up at the store and they would either drive or walk home to the food waiting on the stove. My grandmother didn’t retire …
Father’s Day and other stuff
June 23, 2009 | by DianaToday was a busy day. My son went to Track Camp – we were worried about the heat but it’s an indoor track. My daughter has an ear infection. I took her to Urgent Care after work and for the first time ever she filled out her own forms, gave them her own insurance card, and even signed for her own prescriptions. She’s so grown. Then we picked up some precooked meals at Kroger’s and heated them in the microwave. Some nights that’s the way it goes.
Yesterday, I gave my husband a nice new in the box, grill for Father’s Day. Our old one is much smaller and is well, old. We were walking through the store picking up stuff for dinner when I mentioned getting food to barbecue for dinner. My husband groaned and said – oh, that grill is not put together, I’ll have to assemble it. I told him that the kids have offered to put the grill together for you, but I said I wasn’t sure whether you would want it. My dear hubby smiled and said that they won’t need to do anything having to do with the propane and it would make …
