A Typical Friday Night

Friday night is Grandma and Marley night. Actually it is really Grandma, Marley and the Babas' night as Paul's father usually comes over too. Kristen and Mark used to spend every Friday night at Paul's parents' house for years. Paul and I used to look forward to one night a week out by ourselves, and I always said that when I had grandchildren I would do the same. What I didn't realize was that I would end up enjoying it probably more than Marley's parents do.

No matter what the beginning of the night starts off with, we usually end up watching something on TV for the last hour or so. Some of her favorites are Animal Planet, Shirley Temple movies, and DVD's of the old Waltons show. Most nights end up with me and Marley coloring at the coffee table (I'm glad now that I never had it re-finished). Marley still likes to play "tent" and last night she asked if we could make a tent. I was less than enthusiastic and told her she could but she would have to do it herself (nice, huh?). This tent was a little abbreviated, but it worked nonetheless.


This was a little more elaborate tent that we used to set up at GG's. (2004)

When asked if she was going to want to share Friday nights with "Baby Radtke" her answer was a resounding "Yes".

A Bee Update By Paul

After vacuuming about a thousand bees (no kidding) as they came and left, I finally sealed up the natural hole in the siding. Then, for a few days, we had a few bees a day find their way through our bow window. They were not aggressive and Izzy would point them out to us. Oddly, she never attacked them or got stung. It's been a few weeks now with no sign of them. Either I licked them or there are several thousand bees silently drilling into our house and some morning we will be invaded. I never did find where the nest was. Most people just call an exterminator, but once the war started, I wasn't about to give up.

Izzy - The First Six Months