And Lucy Makes Four

Well,we had a fun weekend.On Friday my mom came and picked me and the girls up and we spent the day at her house.My grandmother(my dad's mom) lives with my parents now.Grandpa is in a nursing home.I really was never close to these grandparents growing up so I guess I am trying to develop a relationship now that I am an adult.It's weird too because we have always lived in the same town as them yet I am a lot closer to my grandparents who lived two and a half hours away growing up and now eight hours away.But anyway I desire to get to know my grandma better.It was a lot of fun just hanging out with her.Our friends Eric and Darlene(probably the only person who will even read this:))went camping this weekend so their dog Sally came and stayed with us.I love to keep Sally for them.She is really sweet and her and my dog get along great!On Saturday evening we went to The Taste of Cass County.This is something our town started doing a few years ago.Several local restaurants have booths set up and you buy tickets to get food from where ever you want.Needless to say,we had some very good stuff.On Sunday after church we went with my parents and grandma to the nursing home to eat lunch with grandpa.They do this every week however this was our first time.It was really nice.The staff set up the private dining room for us and we even got to choose what we wanted off a menu.And the food really wasn't bad.This visit was kind of funny and kind of sad at the same time.I kept trying to get a conversation going with Grandpa.He has a birthday coming up later this month.I asked him how old he was going to be.And he just had this blank stare on his face.So I asked him again and this time he said 91.He will be 82.Well then my dad asked him if Jim had been up to see him the day before.Jim is my dad's brother.Grandpa said"I don't know,I wasn't here".He never leaves.Well then our food came and everyone was eating.All of a sudden grandpa say's"I'd like to know what Jim has to do with the taste of this coffee".WHAT?????I couldn't help it.I started laughing.Well then Grandpa started laughing.Eventualy everyone was laughing.I guess you have to find the humor in those moments but it is sad to see the way he is now.You are probably wondering what the title of this has to do with this post.Well,Maggie had asked for a kitten for her birthday.So she got one.It came the same day we brought Avery home from the hospital.Well from day one that thing has been bad about using the litter box everytime.Well after two months of this I had had it.So Harriet went outside.But now Harriet was sad because she was by herself.Well,Harriet has four brothers that live at my parents so I told them that we were going to need to get another cat to put out with Harriet.So when we were there on Friday I told Maggie to pick out another kitty to take home.Well she picked out Flannel.But my dad said that if we take Flannel then we should take Smokey Joe too because they are really good buddies.Well sure.So we took them both.Well then last night we found another cat just hanging out on the deck.She is all black and really petite.We have no idea where she came from.But we deceided to keep her too.What's one more at this point?!?!And her name is Lucy.