FOOD, FAMILY, FRIENDS AND SPIDER SPUD...

Sid and I had a weekend of food, family, friends and fun. It started Friday night with us catching up with good friends, Milton and Cindy Whatley, over dinner at Nick's. Milton is a former pastor of our church and performed our wedding ceremony and I have worked with Cindy at another newspaper. Milton recently moved from a church in Leland to one in South Jackson. We discussed who's reading what and what we want to read but haven't had the time.

We celebrated Valentine's Day Saturday. We started off with a great meal at Julep's and then went to hear the Mississippi Symphony present Simply Sinatra with Steve Lippia. What a night.

Yesterday, grandson Rowan came to visit. He announced to his mother that he'd sleep in his room if he could have a Spiderman Mr. Potato Head to protect him. So...I found him one for Valentine's Day.

It's Spider Spud. We also got him Optimash Prime. It's a Mr. Potato Head transformed into Optimus Prime, the leader of the Autobots. Funny to see these toys resurface after all these years. While he was over we had to drive his Mustang, go for a walk, hit the baseball, build a colored fire in the chimenea and watch Peyton Manning.

I cooked salmon, cous cous and broccoli but he chose six leftover Sonic cheese sticks and some Whoppers topped off with a fudgecicle(grandmothers can do this).

It was a fabulous weekend.