Slowing down

Since I arrived home last Friday, I have been busy with preparing for our guests then enjoying their presence.  Sunday night Randy's sister, Shelley, and her significant other arrived, though we didn't see them till Monday morning when they went with Randy to the Memorial Day ceremony at the flagpole here; Randy played in the band which provided music.  Then shortly after noon, K, E and e arrived.  Later a friend stopped by, then Randy's aunt and uncle, his cousin and wife arrived for supper.  Little e handled all these new people very well.  Tuesday E and K worked, while I watched e.  Shelley and Steve came by before going out for the day, then they had dinner at Randy's cousin's before coming back to Alameda for the community band concert.  I watched e so K and E could also attend the concert, which consisted of music from Disney movies.  Yesterday e and her parents went to San Francisco on BART to witness a couple of friends getting married at City Hall; after the ceremony and lunch, e was introduced to several of K's co-workers at the SF office.  They came home on the ferry.  So a day of firsts for the baby!  I managed to prepare a quilt back for the Dancing Nines quilt but my hands weren't up to pinning the layers together.

 Dinner was Chinese take-out before I left for the final choir rehearsal of the spring.  This morning Shelley and Steve stopped by to see e one last time on their way to a conference in Twenty Nine Palms.  Whew!!

We sometimes complain a little that no one comes to see us, so when they do we make a big deal of it, I guess.

I have managed to take a couple of short walks with e; I enjoy the cooler weather and hope she does.  Today when I wasn't playing with or feeding e, I read part of The Cruelest Month, third in a series about a Canadian police detective.  The author, Louise Penny, is excellent.  Her characters are unique and believable, and the set up of the series is good.  Tomorrow a good friend is coming to meet e and visit with me.  Saturday there may be dim sum, and Sunday K is talking about going to Davis to spend time with his brother and drive a back-loader.  So never a dull moment at our house!  But it does look like life will be a bit calmer for the rest of the baby's visit.