Wednesday Mornings

For the last month or so, we've been getting up at about 7:30 to do something that has become quite special to me. James's sweet Great Aunt Eileen live in a little ol' shack on Loveland road about 3 miles from me. She been in need of someone to run her errands with her and James and I offered to do it. It's such a treat, really. We pick her up at 8 and first she request we go to Gram's Diner for breakfast. She always orders a cup of coffee and a cheese omelet. It cracks me up every time when she gets her coffee she goes right for the sugar. After pouring it for about 2 seconds she says, "Now I can't quite tell, is the sugar coming out?" As you can imagine pouring one of those glass things of sugar for about 5 seconds, she had plenty of sugar!. It's the same story with the pepper she puts on her omelet. "Will you watch to be sure the pepper comes out." There is always plenty of pepper! She is a very smart lady, I'm always interested to converse with her and she always has the funniest stories that come up!
After breakfast, we make our way to the Rod's Big M grocery store. She can't read the list she made up so she's always asking, "Can you read what else is on the list?" She always gets banana's and something from the deli, asking ever so sweetly and with the softest of voices. She is so thankful too. As I place the one wheat and one white loaves of bread, that she always gets, into the cart she'll say "oh thank you, thank you ever so much." She loves the wintergreen patties and when we finally find which check-out lane they moved to she gets the cutest grin on her face. She usually gets cat food, either for her cat Molly or for the raccoons, to keep them from wanting to come into her little ol' shack. She knows exactly what aisle things are in, but is never sure where the aisle is, so she'll say "I know the tuna is on this end of the aisle, do you see the tuna anywhere?" She just makes me smile, because she is so gentle.

I look forward to Wednesdays, not only because it is a day off from the daycare, but mostly because I get to spend the morning with Sweet Great Aunt Eileen. If only you could hear her say, "Oh...Thank you, thank you ever so much" whenever I do anything for her. If I learn anything from her, it's to be thankful, even for the simple things people do for me.