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Year Two, Day 255: Back to Tom's Restaurant! :)

Up early I am!

Today is breakfast with Mom day.  We had to miss the last two weeks because of snow.

So wonderful to be back to our normal schedule!  And I am continuing my birthday celebration.  This is the first time I will see my dear mother since before my birthday. :)


We are going to one of our favorite restaurants:  Tom's Restaurant on SE Division and Cesar Chavez. We have been meeting regularly for breakfast most every Saturday for several years.

I will post some pictures at breakfast. But I wanted to get this blog posted early as part of my breaking the chain of my oversleeping and regretting. Here is the proof! :) 

Before our Saturday Breakfast at Tom's, I would take my children to Tom's for dinner on the first day back to school.

We have been part of the Tom's Restaurant family for over 20 years!  We love Tom's!  The owners are from Greece and very lovable.  The food is very yummy and reasonably priced.  Breakfast food is standard, but for lunch and dinner you can experience some lovely Greek food.  Sunday they usually feature their Greek lemon chicken soup ("Avgolemono"). Before I went gluten free, one of my favorite dinners at Tom's was there Greek Spaghetti. Spaghetti with mizithra cheese. Yum! :)  And the Greek Salad....I am salivating!

And most hungry am I! Cannot wait for breakfast! :)

After breakfast we will head out to the church I teach at on Saturdays. My mother is my first student of the day.  We have not had a lesson in nearly a month!

She has assured me she has been practicing.  At 73, she is one of my most diligent beginning students!  She has played for 3 of my recitals.  And she has only been studying piano for 2 years!

Never too late!

I am so glad the inauguration is over. And the snowstorm.  Interesting sequence of events really.  I have a feeling that now is the time for us all to get back to work and focus on living this God given life to the fullest.

Getting up early is a good start for me. 

Happy Saturday! :)

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