My Beautiful Granddaughters...

...Julia and Claire...here from Connecticut College (Julia)  and Vassar (Claire) for an all too short visit. I think the best part of a family visit is just hanging out in pajamas, comparing the performance of John's hearing aids and Julia's cochlear implants, breakfast burritos at the Trail House together, baking a cake, talking about how lucky we are that if we felt like talking politics, at least we would all be on the same page, and laughing at the fact that after everybody tried to get the applesauce jar open, Jim was the only one who succeeded. When I heard cheers and applause in the television room, I thought that either the lid came off and there was applesauce on the ceiling, or someone scored a touchdown in the football game on television. Dana just said, " he looks really fat..." and Jim responded, "well at least you're talking about the dog...." 

The best conversations are the overheard ones....

Bouillabaisse for dinner....