A four-day trip to Springfield

We made a four-day trip to Springfield last week. Mother was in the hospital but was released on Saturday. Dad is quite weak now, but they refuse to hire help. They really need to hire someone to live with them, if they are not going to move to assisted living.

My cousin Vicki in Houston is expecting to have surgery soon.

We are doing well thus far.

While we were in Springfield, Nick and his family were there too. You could say we had a family reunion of sorts. We ate at Red Robin one evening. I had a whiskey-flavored hamburger with a chocolate shake. Braum's has a much better chocolate shake.