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The Parental Units Have Seen The New House

My parents and my grandmother brought Phoebe back from her weekend visit in the Poconos. This was their first visit to our new house. Mom called when they were driving here, not sure if she was on the right track, "We're at a Walmart in the middle of nowhere on Route 1." Yes, Mom... We live in the middle of nowhere. Thank you for confirming. But I love it out here!!!

They loved the house and we all sat down to a great dinner of barbeque chicken, grill stir fried zucchini, a spinach and romaine lettuce salad and a loaf of tomato and basil bread from the grocery store. Nan (my Nan) had the La Prima Donna white wine from VaLa and she said it was fabulous!

One really cute thing about Nan. Whenever she visits someone out of the area who once lived up there, she brings the day's local newspaper for them. I've come to rely on her always doing it. It's so cute! I did get yesterday's Times Leader. We sent her home with two bottles of Barbera (red) and two of the La Prima Donna. It's a fair trade if you ask me.

It was really nice having everyone visit. It was nice having Phoebe back for a short time. She left today to visit Tom's parents through early next week, when we're taking vacation before she starts Kindergarten.

The other update to post about is Cirque du Soleil - Quidam. It was awesome! The theater, the comedy, the costumes, the acrobatics. It was also really nice to share it with Phoebe. She thoroughly enjoyed it. She especially enjoyed the four Chinese girls that must have been about 10 or 11 years old doing their show with diabolos. They made it look so easy, we bought her one to play with as a souvenier. She now knows how hard it is to do. She hasn't quite figured it out yet, but I'm sure she will eventually!

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