Thursday October 27, 2011

Dan and I arrived at 5:00 pm with the promised Chinese food - Won Ton Soup, Spare Ribs, General Tsao Chicken and Spring Rolls - hey at their age, what the heck!!  We all went into the Activity Room and sat down - I served M&P the hot soup and boy did they like it.  I brought over a large quart and they could have easily shared a small one and still had left over - then I served them both a spare rib, some rice, and 2 small pieces of chicken and one egg roll for Momu and a cold can of Bud.  Momu was in heaven and Popa starred at his food.  He had trouble with his fork today for some reason.  He was also spitting like crazy tonight.  So after about an hour - Momu took a few bites of her spare rib, and ate one small piece of chicken and her egg roll.  Popa ate one piece of chicken.  I cleaned up and then gave each of them an ice cream cup

We chatted during dinner - Momu's stories today were:  Townsend Harris School/entrance test and Basement Renovation - but today was the first time she said 'care givers' vs. mentioning Joanne by name...hmmmm.....

I am leaving for my trip tomorrow (Friday) and won't be back until the following Friday night - close to 11:30 pm.  Dan leaves for a business trip on Sunday and won't be back until end of week as well.  I told them I won't be seeing them for an entire week - they were sad.  Dan will visit with them tomorrow and also on Saturday - we ordered a great cake tonight - Chocolate cake, boston creme filling in between layers, and fresh whipped cream topping - Dan will pick it up on Saturday and celebrate Popa's 95th one day early - we felt it was important for someone to be there - although we had to tell him what Sunday was - and he was funny - we said it is your birthday and w/out hesitating, he said 'well then, happy birthday'.  We all got a good laugh at that.

We walked them back to their rooms - opened up cards they received from Valerie and Lysbeth Kennedy.  It was snowing outside (YES, snow on October 27th) so we headed out around 6:15.  On our way out, Popa said to us: "You guys are the best!"  Momu said we were the perfect couple.  Yep, as the author of this blog, I get to toot my own horn and Dan's as well!!