Saturday With Grandchildren

❤️A Saturday Full of Grandbabies, Good Food & Family 🐟❤️

Good morning, everyone!

I’m getting caught up on my weekend blog posts, and I have to say… Saturday was a really good day. One of those days filled with grandbabies, family, good food, and plenty of laughs.

Our Saturday started bright and early when Savannah brought Landon and Sophie over around 7:00 a.m. so we could keep the kids while she took Lane to his football game in Minco, Oklahoma.

After the game, Savannah and Lane were going to head over to where Brody works to have lunch with him, so she planned to pick the kids back up around 1:00.

Well, when she came to get them, Lane decided he wanted to stay for a while. So Sophie went with Savannah, and we ended up keeping Landon and Lane until about 5:00.

And honestly? I wasn’t complaining one bit. I love getting that extra time with my grandbabies!

Around 5:00, we all headed over to Elizabeth and Charles’ house for a fish fry. The fish was caught this past week by Charles, Brody, and Luther, so we were definitely ready to enjoy the fruits—or should I say, fish—of their labor!

We had quite the crowd there: Elizabeth and Charles, Alisha and Jonathan, me and Luther, Brody, Savannah, Lane, Landon, and Sophie. We also found out that Luther’s Aunt Aline and Kenneth were coming, too, which made the evening even more fun.

And let me tell you about their back porch.

I absolutely love sitting out there.

They have it set up so nicely with chairs, a fireplace, a TV, and even a hot tub. Charles also has his big fish fryers set up out there, so it’s basically the perfect place to hang out.

It’s peaceful, comfortable, and just feels like a place where you can relax.

At one point, when everybody was inside, I knew Landon was outside with Charles, so I slipped out onto the back porch and sat down. I watched a little TV and played on my phone for probably ten minutes.

Sometimes you just need those ten little minutes to decompress.

Honestly, I could sit out there for hours.

And here’s something I never would have believed twenty years ago…

If you had told me back then that Elizabeth and I would someday be able to sit in the same room—or on the same back porch—for hours and enjoy ourselves, I probably would have told you that you had completely lost your mind!

But life has a funny way of changing things.

No matter what has happened over the years, we are definitely co-parenting together, and I really do believe that makes a huge difference. Being able to come together for the kids and enjoy family time is something I don’t take for granted.

And then there was the FOOD!

We had fried fish, hush puppies, French fries, macaroni and cheese, corn, pinto beans, sliced onions, tartar sauce, ketchup, and Alisha brought a salad that was SO good.

Nobody was leaving hungry, that’s for sure!

After we finished eating and visiting, it was around 7:15 when Luther looked at me and said, “I’m ready to go home.”

And I said, “Absolutely!”

😂

I gathered up our tote and started packing up the things we needed to take home.

We’ve discovered that taking a tote over to Elizabeth and Charles’ house makes things so much easier. Instead of carrying a bunch of paper sacks, we can just throw everything we need into one tote and grab it when we’re ready to go.

This time, our tote had our gallon of tea, two packages of paper products, plastic silverware, hush puppies, French fries, tartar sauce, and a gallon of cooking oil.

Oh, and we also brought a 12-pack of Michelob Ultra.

That last part didn’t fit in the tote. 😂

But most everything else did!

It’s the little things that make life easier, right?

And before the evening was over, Lane and Landon were having such a good time at Grandma Elizabeth and Grandpa Charles’ house that they decided they wanted to stay all night.

So that’s exactly what they did.

They stayed the night with Elizabeth and Charles, and I’m pretty sure they were perfectly happy with that arrangement!

All in all, it was just a really good Saturday.

Lots of family.

Lots of food.

Lots of grandbaby time.

A little time to sit quietly on the back porch.

And a whole lot of memories made.

Those are the Saturdays I want to remember.

Hope that your Saturday was as awesome as ours was.

Talk to you later!

Cheers,
Karen ❤️🎁