I know this blog is for posting our summer adventures, so I'll let you know what I've been up to. Sadly I had to return to CA to take care of the business my dad left me after he passed away in April. It was not doing well at all and after lots of discussions, I decided to fly home.
I am happy to say that my daughter and son-in-law have volunteered to jump in and help as much as they can and they have been WONDERFUL!! They have fantastic and amazing ideas. They have put in so many hours and have been so helpful. And all of this and taking care of a 7 month old and a 3 year old and her hubby has a full time job.
This week has been so productive but VERY stressful. As of yesterday I have seen much fruit from our labors. There will be more updates later. Yesterday I tried to drive home from O.C. What usually takes about 12 minutes took over an hour and a half. Evidentally there were 3 accidents and a fire. I swear to you, I never got over 2 miles an hour. Finally after being so stressed, I called my massage place and made an appt. and got off the freeway and headed to the SPA. I got a 90 minute massage and it felt wonderful.
I called my daughter to have her check the freeway situation and it was still really bad. So her hubby said "tell her to turn around and come have dinner with us." 'Nuff said, I headed back to Anaheim and it took my only 12 minutes to get there!!!! So I stayed till about 10:30 and headed home. It was so nice to be home and sleep in my own bed, 'cept it was missing something very important...MY HUSBAND!!!
I have an appt this morning with the DMV and am heading out the door shortly. Then I have to deal with my dad's house and get it ready for an estate sale and to get it rented. So much to do, so little time!!
Now to share something ....when I arrived at the airport and got to where the baggage claim was, there was a swarm of papparazi's practically knocking everyone over to get to someone coming down the escalator. Later we found out it was Zack Effron from High School Musical. But while looking at the video on TMZ, Jennifer shouted, "Mom, come here!!! You are on the video!!". Yup, sure enough there I was standing totally frozen and watching the whole thing. I feel sorry for these artists, it really was a horrible frenzy.
Now here is the cute story. My grandaughter, Katie and I talked on the phone a lot while I was gone and she kept asking me "you come to my house now Gramma?" Well finally I was able to say YES! So the day before I was to come home she started singing "if I knew you were coming, I'd a baked a cake". So she and her mom baked a lemon bundt cake for me. BUT she was a bad girl, she got into it while it was still in the pan. Fast forward to her seeing me at the airport....she came running over. After I picked her up, she looked at me and said "gramma, I ate some of your cake." I said you did??? and she said "yetz, I was a yiddle hungry". Well that cracked me up so much that I turned my head so she couldn't see me laughing and she thought I was crying so she patted me and said so seriously, "it's ok gramma, mommy fixed it." Isn't that cute? The cake was good too!!
I was able to have dinner with my bestest friend, Rosemary (that I've known for over 36 years). She came to town because her son and daughter in law had a baby and for her other daughter's wedding shower. I brought my step mom, Rose, with me and went to dinner and sat at a round table for 14 people. This Italian place is "SO Italian" that it had pictures of the Pope EVERYWHERE AND a waxed bust of him in the middle of the table. Everyone kept turning the lazy susan around so he wouldn't be looking at us. Later my grandson, R.J., came running over to me and gave me the biggest hug ever!!! Then he pointed to the picture of the Pope behind me and said "grandpa!" LOL I'm sure he was speaking of Grandpa Freiholtz.
One funny story and then I have to go.....Rosemary was chatting with Jennifer giving her a bad time...Jennifer told Rosemary to "shut up" (she was just playing) and Rosemary's daughter, Lisa, heard her and laughed and said "don't tell my mom to shut up" and then my son Richie said to Lisa, "don't talk to my sister that way!!" LOL we were all laughing, it was sooo funny!
OK...I'm off. I'll try to post some pictures from dinner.
