Monday, March 2, 2015

     Today was a joyous day!  Hubby and I slept through the alarm we set so we could get up in time to eat breakfast at the hotel so we had to eat out again.  But that was ok.  We got ready and got out of the hotel.  We went to Walmart, looking for a tea set and play food for Lili.  We had talked to Sarah and Lili didn't have anything like this.  So we looked at Walmart, we didn't find the tea set but we did find a child's grocery cart with play food.  Lots of boxes of play food but still thought it was ok.  So next we went to Arby's because we were starving.  I got the medium roast beef sandwich and hubby got the french dip.  I also got an apple turnover.
     Next we went to Big Lots where I found the perfect tea set with a teapot, creamer, sugar bowl, plates, cups and silverware.  Now it says it is for 3+ years old and Lili is only 16 months but she is being supervised.  And her mom, Sarah, approved of the set.  Lili and I played with it.  She doesn't quite get the pretend part of it yet but she is learning.  We brought bubbles too and she loved those.  She even blew a few!
      Hubby spent a lot of the day cooking for dinner for tonight and for tomorrow, doing the first stages of the homemade chicken soup.  And for dinner tonight he is making beef goulash.  Some of Sarah's favorite foods.  The trick of cooking is he has to cook kosher and that means adapting the recipe in ways we have not considered before.  I think it was a roaring success!  Instead of milk, he substituted cornstarch.  Instead of butter, he used butter flavored crisco.  I think the dumplings came out better.  The family all liked it.
     As the day went on, hubby started feeling worse and worse and getting stuffy.  We left after dinner, when we got our car back.  Bar, Sarah's husband, had started a car audio store.  SO as a surprise, Bar installed at new stereo in our car so hubby could plug in his MP3 to it and have it play in the car.  What a wonderful son in law!
     Hubby stopped at the drug store and bought some Mucelex and rested.  He took a short nap and then heated up some leftovers.  After eating he has gone back downstairs to listen to the new stereo before he is going to bed.