Here is Alina, the very proud mother!!!
Here is great Aunt Lou and the lovely little Adriana!
Now here is a picture of daddy Tom and Grandma Donna! The only other picture I have of Tom also has grandma on the other side. As you kow I do not use pictures without permission and I did not get permission from Donna for any picture except this one. Sorry.
The red writing below is now moot since you have your pictures!!
I must apologize because there are no pictures here, but I can not figure how to get them with someone elses software. When I get home I will add pictures. Thanks for understanding an old woman who is clueless on a computer!!
As you know I am on vacation! This is my first evening. Left Pueblo this morning, well actually yesterday, which was Sunday. Stopped in Lakin for lunch with the kiddies, but that is a whole nuther blog! Arrived in Hutchinson, Kansas around 7:00 PM. Where is the first place we had to go upon arrival at my sister Donna's house? You guessed it!! She has a brand new, and the only one in the world at the time, Grand Daughter! Her only son, Tom Bartholomew and his lovely wife, Alina are the proud parents of a bouncing baby girl, born only the day before. How exciting is that? And this precious little baby was wanting to meet me! Me! Can you beleive that? At least that is what Donna told me and of course I beleive everything people tell me.
Now, I want to go on record as saying, this may look like a normal baby, but such is not the case. Far be it from me to brag about my family of which I am the official Matriarch, having outlived the other older siblings, but I shall digress and do just that. Her mother is Alina Aldatova, formerly of Russia and current and former Karate/Kick Boxing Champion of the World. I kid you not! Go Google Alina and there she pops up. My traveling companion, the wiccan, reminded me to mind my manners as I had not yet met Alina, and I sometimes come across a tad bit overbearing. She did, however, say she had my back. Yeah, my waaaaaaay back.
Alina is a very sweet and wonderful person and I think she liked me as I left the room in one piece! I had seen pictures of her in her karate poses and asked if she would show me how she could put her foot clear up over her head while standing flat footed on the floor. She declined, but there will be another day.
While Alina is a world wide celebrity, Tom is fairly well known in this area, He is a salesman for Sysco Foods which sells to resturants and institutions. Not just your old run of the mill salesman either. Boy has been very succesful in this field. Wins all sorts of awards, but the best part is his customers love him to death. He is one of the sweetest little (and I use the term lovingly, not literally) kids I have ever known. But while Tom is a celebrity in the food service circle, his mother is a celebrity in the resturaunt circle.
Donna Bartholomew along with her partner, Karen LeShure own and operate Skaets Steak Shop in Hutchinson, Kansas. Now this place has been around for quite some time. My first job was washing dishes at Skaets in 1959. At that time it was owned by Norman Deschene and his wife. I was 18 at the time, a mere slip of a girl, unsullied by the world. But there is a whole new kettle of worms!
Tomorrow I shall give you the history of Bartholomew involvement in food service in Hutchinson, Kansas. For now we shall just wait till Donna gets up and I can verify a few things before I post this. In the meantime, I am going to pull on some shorts and tee shirt and a pair of tennies and jog on over to McDonalds on the highway to meet my boy cousins. I have not talked to them, but I did email them that I was headed this way and I think they will get the telepathic message. If they are there I will eat yogurt, if not I will do the sausage and grease thing. BBL (In chat room talk that means Be Back Later!)
Oh, and tomorrow I will be lunching with the girl cousin and a Kansas politician of rather high standing, who just happens to be a Republican. Need a picture of him for my phone.
