She was very pleased with the beds and immediately put her dolls, "Amelia" and "Lily" to bed in them.
When Bubba and I were pulling the beds out of the junk packed closet, I mentioned that there was a ladder that went with them. Bubba didn't think we still had the ladder so we didn't pull everything out of the closet to look for it. When Amelia talked to her dad on the phone, she told him about the beds and said, "I got bunk beds, but there is no ladder." We were all surprised that she even thought about a ladder. I mean, after all, it is not like the doll actually has to climb up on the bed. Later that evening, I whispered a "secret" in her ear. I told her that when Paw-Paw went to work on Monday, we would pull everything out of that junk closet and try to find the ladder. She loved the idea of keeping a secret from Paw-Paw. And on Monday we went to the closet to start the big secret search and after I had pulled out only two boxes, I looked over on a shelf and there was the ladder just lying there in plain sight. I was relieved and Amelia was thrilled. Now her bunk beds are complete
Although Amy probably doesn't believe this, we look forward to seeing her as well. I try to fix some of her favorite "Momma" meals while she is with us. In addition to the cake, I fixed Fried Chicken for one meal and Fried Shrimp for another.
We had several ideas about what we might do for entertainment. We thought about going to Apalachicola for seafood, going to Shipwreck Island, or spending the night in the camper watching movies and eating popcorn. Bubba voted thumbs down on most of these ideas.
In Bubba's defense, we really don't know a good seafood restaurant in Apalachicola, Shipwreck Island would be anticlimatic after Disneyland, and it was raining all the time which would have tracked a whole lot of mud into the camper.
Saturday night Amy, Amelia, and I went to Blountstown to eat at a new restaurant that I had been hearing good things about -- Tavern on the Hill. Amy and I both ordered the rib-eye steak and it was seasoned well and was very tender. Amelia had her usual grilled cheese. There was a man playing acoustic guitar and that was a nice touch.
Amelia had spent the week before in California where she had been the center of attention as the only child with a group of Darryl's relatives who had gathered for his aunt's funeral. While there she went to Disneyland and California Adventures. By the time she made the trip to see us, she was tired. I think she was happy to be just left alone to play.
On Tuesday before they left for home, Bubba wanted Amelia to go outside with him to look inside her tire swing. A mama bird had built a nest there and Bubba had heard the little ones chirping when he went outside.
Amelia was so excited to see the little baby birds. They were just little balls of down.
This reminds me of a book I had when I was a little girl about Amelia's age. I think the name of it was "Stepladder Babies". I still remember the little poem that was on the first page of the book.
We have a secret, just we three,
The robin, and I, and the sweet cherry-tree;
The bird told the tree, and the tree told me,
And nobody knows it but just us three.
This is a picture of the birds a week later. I wish Amelia was here to watch them grow.
I guess their visit mark the end of "summer". It is still raining and it is still hot. I'm back at work and things are back to normal for now. We have a couple of camping trips planned over the next month or so. We're hoping the weather will cooperate.
For those of you who thought my last blog was a little strange, I have to defend myself. I was attempting a different style of writing. I read a lot of books with two or three different things going on at the same so I was trying to be more creative. I guess I had better just stick to telling it like it is.
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