Merry Kissmas and Puppy New Year

Merry Kissmas...

...and Puppy New Year!!

We had a very interesting time in Florida with Tyler for Christmas.  

The ride down was just Mom and Granny and it went perfectly.  Granny had a very good day that day.  Days after that were not as good, unfortunately.  The time Granny had really can't be described in words.  It was different from day to day, hour to hour, and, sometimes, minute to minute.  Very unpredictable.  She definitely kept is on our toes.  She got very angry sometimes and really let us know she was mad.  It wasn't really different than when we were at home, though.  

She did have lots of fun!  She enjoyed looking at all the sights and new things (even though she always thought that the ocean was the river and we were just across the river bridge and headed to White County)!!  

Speaking of White County...Granny thought we we on the wrong road the WHOLE way home!!  She also had NO problem telling is that sooner or later we were going to wake up to the fact that we were on the wrong road.  This got much worse as it got dark outside and was very frustrating, but she chilled out once we got to Memphis.  Still thought we were going to White County (and occasionally Missouri), but we finally got her home.  Then she didn't want to go to bed (at 2:30 am!) until she had done the dishes.  You know, the ones that weren't in the sink?!  She finally quit and went to bed around 3:00 am and slept until noon!!  WOW!!

On the way home Mom, Granny, and I stopped at one of Aunt Pat's famous restaurants: Lambert's.  Above is the coffee up (half a pot!) that Granny was given.  She only had one cup during the hour and a half lunch!!  She changed her answer each time we asked her what she was going to have (because we usually order for her to make it simpler), but the waitress asked what we were having and Granny answered without even looking up - with a different answer again, but she had a great meal anyway.  She ate a lot and even ate things like fried okra (and fish from Captain D's the other day) that she swears she doesn't like.  Mom and I just look at each other and smile often!  We think and hope that Granny's appetite has increased since we ate so many large meals on the trip.  She ate a plate FULL for lunch today and went back for more!!

The day after we got home and I had a chance to put all the pictures on the computer, I set it to do a slideshow of the ones we had taken on the trip.  During the third cycle of the same slideshow she was still commenting on almost every picture saying how cute or pretty it was!  Ah, the joys of no memory!!