After the early morning wake up from the rooster we managed to roll over and sleep in until after 7. We stuck with oatmeal and blueberries for breakfast after our quiet times. I headed out back to the garden and transplanted my Swiss chard and kale as well as hoed around the lettuces. Nancy needed fresh green onions so I pulled and cleaned several for the egg casserole for breakfast today. I got a call from my former nephew, Bruce Jr. who is visiting his dad, Bruce Sr. in Tampa about coming by for a visit before they head back to Louisiana today.
While waiting for them to arrive we put together the casserole; I beat about 20 eggs, chopped up the green onions, broke up the bread for the toppings and sauteed the chopped ham then mixed it all together while she got the glass casserole dish ready. With the two of us it didn't take long and I did the clean up as well. We are expecting about 10-12 for breakfast on Christmas morning around 10 AM.
Well its been 13 years since we last saw Jr. and his family. Seems his first wife died who is the mother of his son Ian(who came along for the visit). Ian was 13 when he was last here. Jr. has remarried to really nice gal, Penny who has 2 grown children. Sr. came along with Norma his wife who is from the Philippines. The last we saw Sr. was at Amy's wedding about 6 years ago. They visited and we reminisced, laughed and shared lots of personal history. It was great to catch up after such a long while. Sr. and I were married to sisters many moons ago and while both of the sisters have moved on marrying a couple times since we were last in the picture. Sr. and I use to fly together in the USAF and have remained in contact over the years. He had a son, Jr. and a daughter Sandy with the sister while I had no kids with my sister. Sandy has 3 children and lives just south of our cabin in Hickory N.C. I was always their favorite Uncle Butch and I'm still called that by them despite making them eat vegetables on their plates when I babysat. I had Jr. come and live with me for a couple years when Sr. was stationed overseas as the sister wanted nothing to do with him; so I became his legal guardian during that time period, plus I had fun teaching him many things about growing up.
They visited for a couple hours and it was one of the high lites of the day. Nancy headed over to pick up her mom(GG) who was going to attend a candle lite service at our old church in Seminole where daughter Amy and Tyler attend. The place was packed and the service was awesome. We saw so many old friends and familiar faces and got lots of hugs and well wishes as well. Afterwards we headed back to our house for snacks and eats. GG had made a pot of vegetable soup, Amy brought a pot of Zuppa, Nancy had spinach dip and cookies, Dan and Carol brought Carol's mother, Jesse and a dish of salsas as well as a concasio dip that Tyler made. We ate until nearly 8:30 as we all had skipped supper. It was a fun time as we did this tradition for years when the kids were still at home and the only ones missing were the Carlson's who were there yearly and of course Nancy's dad who has passed on. Braden came and ate with us as well and then took GG home when he left.
Most everyone was gone by 10 so after the clean up I headed for the shower and was out cold when Nancy came to bed around midnight. Today will be another round of eating as the same gang is coming for breakfast around 10 which is another tradition only this year Bob and his family will come for supper instead of breakfast. We alternate as Jill's family lives near them so they will have breakfast with Brian and Susan and supper with us. We have 2 prime ribs to roasts which is about 25 pounds of median rare eatin' around 6 PM, LATER
In the picture(s) on the left is Penny who is Bruce Jr. wife, then Ian who is Jr. son by his deceased wife, Norma them Bruce Sr., me and then Bruce Jr.
This bottom picture is shown missing Bruce Jr with Nancy in his place.
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