The Weekend Together and Parting on Monday

 

Roses on Saturday

Gardener friend M had been around on Friday evening, when we were attending the graduation ceremonies and he had deadheaded the roses and tended to the garden.

On Saturday morning, I slept in because I had stayed up till 6:00 a.m. and woken up at about 8:00 a.m. with indigestion!  I had taken a couple of antacid tablets before going to bed, but, now, I needed to bring up whatever was causing the indigestion!  After that, I brushed my teeth and went back to bed and slept till noon!  I was fine after that, though.  But, I had some toast with my homemade calamondin marmalade for brunch, just to be safe.

Daughter had made plans to visit with one of her friends and spend the afternoon and evening playing boardgames at her friend's apartment.  So, I dropped her off at her friend's place around 3:00 p.m. and came home.  

I did a little more paperwork and filing after I came home, ran the dishwasher, washed the sari blouse I had worn on Friday. cooked the pork chops I had bought earlier in the week and a fresh pot of rice.  I ate part of a pork chop with the rice for an early dinner without any problems with my digestive system.  I also texted with cousin V (who is recovering from knee surgery) and chatted with friend R.

Much later in the evening, I picked daughter up from her friend's place.  They had ordered dinner from an Italian restaurant, but, daughter had worn her mask throughout the evening, so, they had kept her dinner in the fridge and she brought it home to eat.  She offered to share it with me, but, I declined.  A little later, however, I wanted something for dessert, so I made us some bread pudding.  Two individual containers of bread pudding because I like raisins in mine and daughter doesn't.

Bread Pudding; With and Without Raisins

On Sunday, daughter let me sleep in and not only made her own cup of coffee, but, put my tea to brew.  We spent some time in the morning looking at the pictures she and her friends took on their recent trip to Japan.  There were a lot of pictures as they each forwarded the pictures each one took to the whole group.

In between looking at the pictures, I did two loads of laundry, changed the dust sheets on the living room sofas, dusted the living room and dining area, cleared the dining table, and cleared the big table in the family room.  A (whose graduation we went to on Friday) had invited my daughter to go hiking with her and her sister on Sunday, but, daughter's podiatrist has specifically told her not to even attempt going on a hike before her foot heals more, so, daughter had declined the invitation to hike and had suggested having a paint night at our house, instead, so, I was getting the place tidied up in readiness for their paint night.  But, the plans fell through as A's sister went on a hike by herself and A had some last minute preparations to do to prepare for a summer job she was starting on Monday.

Instead, daughter and I spent an evening relaxing and celebrating Mother's Day that we had delayed celebrating until she came home.  Daughter ordered dinner from our favorite neighborhood Japanese restaurant for a celebratory dinner and we picked it up and brought it home to eat:

Mother's Day Dinner

Unagi donburi (grilled eel on rice, served in a bowl) for daughter, my favorite beef teriyaki (served with rice, salad and pickled vegetables), and sukiyaki.  Each entree came with a bowl of miso soup.  I asked daughter how our neighborhood Japanese restaurant's food compared with the authentic Japanese food she enjoyed on her trip and she said it compared quite favorably, which was nice to hear.  We had fresh strawberries for dessert.  It was a lovely ending to our weekend together.

On Monday, daughter worked from home.  I put water to the back garden, picked the last of the oranges I had been keeping for daughter, some fresh blueberries, and the first of the peaches.  The peaches are not quite ripe yet, but, they are "seasoned" enough to be eaten with a mixture of salt and chili powder and will ripen on the kitchen counter over the next several days.  And being quite firm still, they will travel well packed into a container, without bruising.  Because daughter was scheduled to fly back on Monday evening, after work, and I was sending the oranges, peaches, and blueberries back with her, along with half the bag of red cherries I had bought, some cooked food from the freezer (pork chops, a small package of the spicy beef curry I had cooked, the two remaining slices of pizza from the last frozen pizza I had bought,  a small package of pol sambol, some ham), as well as a few potatoes and a couple of onions.  Enough food for her for this week until she can do some grocery shopping next weekend. 

Daughter's flight was scheduled to leave at 7:30 p.m., but, it was delayed until 8:30 p.m.  However, daughter wanted to be dropped off at the airport early, just in case they decided that the flight would leave on time, after all.  So, I dropped her off at the airport by 5:30 p.m.

I drove to the pharmacy, afterwards, to pick up two of my medications that were ready.  Then, I came home and took the trash cans out to the curb.  I spent the rest of the evening catching up on blog reading and posting blog updates! 

Daughter reached her apartment, safely, and called me.  She said she ate the slices of pizza I gave her for her dinner.  She will cook a pot of rice and pack rice and some of the beef curry I had sent up with her to take to the office for her lunch on Tuesday.  

I had leftover rice and beef teriyaki for my lunch and rice, half a pork chop, and lentils for my dinner.  Peach slices with salt and chili powder for a snack and cherries for dessert.

Peach Tree

I am grateful for:

- Being able to spend this time together with my daughter
- Celebrating Mother's Day a week later with a lovely meal and time spent relaxing with my daughter
- Daughter had a safe flight and ride to her apartment from the airport
- Daughter was able to spend some time connecting with her friends 
- Being able to send some food home with daughter

Joyful activities have included spending time with my daughter and enjoying a lovely meal with her.

Plans for Tuesday include taking Dancer to the vet clinic for his injection.  

How was your weekend and Monday?  What are your plans for Tuesday?