Once again, I am just getting under the midnight curfew.
I got up at 6:30am at Maggie’s and headed out to St. Mary’s county. I arrived around 8:00am at St. Michael’s. Fr. Lee was in the church praying and he let me interrupt him so I could drop off some of the White House ornaments. I also had a chance to speak to Anne Bishop. While I was at St. Michael’s, she made me the nicest alb and every time I put it on, I say a little prayer of thanks for her. Today, I finally had a chance to say thanks.
Then I went to the Hofmeister’s but it was only 8:20am and so I got no response. Jean, Lila’s mom lives next door, so I left a bunch of the ornaments for the faculty at school.
Then I went by Cathy and Jerry’s to pick up Pat Delaney and drive her uptown. I was scheduled for the 11am Mass but at 10:40 I had just gotten on to Rt. 50 and I knew I couldn’t make the Mass. God love him, Fr. Jim took it for me and no longer rushing; I took Pat to the diner and then to her daughter, Mary. I came home and took a nap.
My cousin, Ann was going to go to the Jensen’s with me but she is getting a cold and had to beg off. I went – and let me only say that I could never face the daily commute in DC. I thought I would lose my mind as I kept coming up to cars parked or stopped in the curb lane of the only two lanes going into the city!
I had a great time at Peg and Rick’s. Their daughter, Kate, who is working in real estate, and their son, Christopher, who is a student at Syracuse, New York and his friend, Halley Dodge, who is a student at the University of Arkansas joined us for a lovely dinner. Both the students had spent a semester in London and had great stories and pictures.
Rick got an I pod for Christmas and Kate, who seems to know everything about the electronic age I am being dragged into, demonstrated so many wonderful things that it can do. There were also great pictures of the family’s trip over to meet Chris when his semester ended and also some great pictures of the cruise Rick, Peg, and I went on with some friends a year ago last October. After that great meal and some very good deserts that Rick made, we just sat at the table and had a good old fashion visit.
Rick gave me a box and a bag of photos and treasure that had belonged to our cousins, Peg and Doris Lohmeyer, both of whom died in the last couple of years. I will look through and try to add some more information to our family tree on Ancestry.com.
The trip home was nothing as many of the streets were bare as I suppose people are resting up for tomorrow night.
I have the 11am Mass on New Year’s Eve day and then I’ll say Mass at one of our senior residences and I probably will see the ball come down in Times Square from a horizontal view in bed. I wish all of you a very blessed and peaceful New Year.
Happy New Year’s Eve!