LRRH, Maggie
If you know your fairy tales and take a look at Maggie’s picture posted here, you can figure out the title of today’s blog. Except that there really isn’t a Big Bad Wolf in this story. Or a grandma. Or a riding hood.
Nevertheless, night before last, Maggie arrived all decked out in red with a basket of yummy food, but she didn’t even stay for my picnic. (In fact, I have the rinsed-but-not-yet-washed plates and silverware to return at a later date.) Yes. “My.” The contents of that basket were all for me!
Nyel in the Garden with Coffee
And, no. I don’t feel one bit guilty. As I wrote a few days ago, Nyel’s menu choices here at Emanuel are really, really good – especially considering he is on a heart healthy diet. Mine, on the other hand, suck, and Maggie, in typical Red Riding Hood fashion, came to my rescue!
The entrée (hot) was a stuffed portabella mushroom. It was accompanied by two salads – one, an avocado stuffed with shrimp and other delicacies and an orange pepper stuffed with chopped tomatoes and celery and… I must confess, I was so ravenous and so overwhelmed that I enjoyed every single morsel but did not pay good enough attention to be able to enumerate the ingredients.
But what I can tell you is that there was a Halloween color scheme!!! A black tray, orange (cloth) napkin, white plate and foods in reds, oranges, greens, yellows and other fall colors! Imagine! I don’t know that I’ve ever had a themed meal right down to coordinated colors!
Sign of Things to Come
It was all such a change from the last ten days of ‘hospital everything’ that it prompted us out of our lethargy for a re-visit to the Children’s Garden yesterday. And there were all of Maggie’s fall colors again — a whole garden full, top to bottom! For our own special afternoon entertainment, an industrious five-year-old was using a kid-sized rake to clear the leaves from the garden path — smooth rolling for Nyel’s wheelchair! A few Thanksgiving decorations signaled that yet another holiday will soon be upon us!
Bring it on, we say! We’ll definitely be ready to celebrate and give thanks!
I am glad that you got to play Grandma to Maggie’s Little Red Riding Hood! Cheerleaders need sustenance!