2018 Life Logs, Day 296—Happy Birthday to Ed and Lynne Kirwin
Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Weather: Sunny and Warmer; High 60, Low 42 degrees F
Location: At Home in The Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
I tried yesterday and today to make phone contact with my friends Ed and Lynne Kirwin just to see how things are going for them. When I finally got through to them this evening, I was gently reminded that yesterday was Lynne’s birthday and today was Ed’s. I had totally spaced on that, but evidently my inner self remembered. At least I will go with that since I really had been trying to reach them—I just didn’t know why. Ed and Lynne are true, dear friends, and I was so happy to hear that both of them had happy birthdays. Ed has two sons. One manages the apartment complex on the Hudson River where Ed and Lynne live and the other owns the complex but lives in Florida. He and his family flew up for the birthdays, so it has been a festive few days for them. Happy birthday to Ed and Lynne. And I know what my New Years’ resolution will be for 2019. It will be to be more thoughtful and remember my friends’ birthdays!
I heard the ding on my phone at 8:30 am this morning. It was a message from Heather telling me that Sam was still sick and would not going to school today. I volunteered to head over ASAP and stay with him for the morning. Then at 12:40 I picked up Jonah and Ollie from school since it was an Early Release day. Whatever I was going to do today will be continued tomorrow. Sam and I had a very nice morning together. We had a discussion about what we need to eat to keep ourselves healthy and somehow that morphed into making beef bone broth. Sam loves beef and I was trying to find a way to get him to eat vegetables. I explained that when you make bone broth, you put in lots of vegetables with the bones and cook it all day so that the vitamins and minerals from the vegetables end up in the broth. Then you remove the bones and veggies and make soup out of the broth. That appealed to Sam, so I went to the store to get the ingredients. He then did all of the work to get those veggies into the pot. He washed and chopped the veggies and put them in the pot to burble.
Then he cut the stew meat and sautéed it to add to the broth later in the day to make beef stew for dinner. He knows his way around the kitchen and enjoys adding just the right amount of this spice and that to get the taste just right. By the end of the day, Sam was feeling much better. The hope is that no one else gets sick so that tomorrow all three boys will be going to school and I can take time to remember what it was I had planned to do today and yesterday. Must not have been very important since I can’t seem to remember!
