There's nothing like family

 A few days ago, Sharon along with Lyv & Myles came by to pick me up and we spent the afternoon together.  Sharon helped me select a new cell phone and then she treated all of us out for an early dinner at Red Lobster.  What a treat that was!  I hadn't been there for quite sometime.  The last time that I was there was when Brian was still with us right before the pandemic hit, and we treated ourselves to a meal there, just the two of us.

See how excited I am about my new cell phone.  I love it!  It does everything and now it doubles as my iPad because it's so big, and I can see everything really well on it.  I can't believe that I kept my old little tiny cell phone (iPhone 5s) for so long....but I do have to say that it was easier and lighter to carry than this new phone.  I have a set of air pods so that I can leave this new large cell phone in my purse and not have to hold it all the time. 

Here we all are, below, in a group picture.  The first picture is a normal picture and of course the kids, including Sharon, just had to also pose for a silly picture.  

  

They love being silly, and just as long as not every picture is a silly one, that's okay with me.  I don't make very good silly faces because my face is silly looking all the time.  

Myles was so excited about his meal. Myles and I split a meal and that was his half of the meal.  

Doesn't it look good?  I thought everything was SO DELICIOUS!

Sharon and Lyv also split a meal, but I don't think that Lyv was as excited about her meal as Myles was about his.  

I can't thank Sharon enough for our expensive meal out.  That was way over and above, but I sure enjoyed it, almost as much as I enjoyed spending the afternoon with all of them.  I hope we can do this more often, not eating at expensive restaurants, but spending time together as a family.

Yesterday I spent some time with Suzanne and Carson.  Carson carried his electronic keyboard down from upstairs and let me play some classical songs on it.  The keys light up so you know which keys to play or I wouldn't have been able to play anything.  It was fun.  

Here is a picture of Carson & Suzanne during one of their outings.

I love my family with all my heart and I have missed them so much.  Jimmy's death changed things so much and then when things were beginning to get back to normal for me, the pandemic hit and then Brian died.  It's not been easy for me these last few years, but I hope that things will now start getting back to normal, or at least as normal as they can be without those we have lost.