“The family table is the heart of the home, where love is served in generous portions."
It’s been about six weeks since our daughter Michelle gave birth to Gus, the new addition to our extended family and he pretty much slept blissfully through the whole thing. Fortunately, I blissfully held him in my arms through the appetizer hour while we watched a digital recording of Michelle playing “Annie” when she was a young girl in Redwood Middle School play in Saratoga. Cecile and Jane Gold were the producers under the outstanding, skillful, creative direction of Laurel Perelman-Cohen who gratefully casted this once shy little girl in the lead role. Lyla, 5 was rapt watching her mother on the screen, while Cecile and I and Michelle held back our nostalgic tears.
Cecile cooked an amazing dinner: Oven-baked Pasta with several types of mushrooms, onions, and dollops of mozzarella in a red Marinara sauce and the one-of-a-kind Schaub’s Fred’s Steak in Palo Alto, which is a heavily marinated steak from Schaub’s Meat, Fish & Poultry, that has always satisfied our guests. We also enjoyed a robust, delicious salad.
For dessert, we had an apple pie with house-made Breyer’s Vanilla ice cream and Neapolitan ice cream.
Cecile and I are so thankful for the new arrival of our grandson, August William Lewis and the opportunity we have had to slowly bonding with him. We look forward to celebrating on many more occasions through the coming years.
Our granddaughters, Lyla and Emmy were excited to have Uncle Jason visiting with us, and his dog Daisy who they are absolutely obsessed with petting her and feeding her treats.
Emmy, asked me if I would take her to my office (Papa’s room) to play. She opened my medical bag and hers’ and Lyla’s plastic medical bag and proceeded to pretend taking my blood pressure, give me an injection, and had me lay myself on my meditation pillows and pretended to cut my hair with "plastic "scissors—thank God:).
The End—of a perfect evening
