Dinner February 21, 2011 at the Ronald McDonald House in San Francisco
Our meal last night was wonderful. Once again, we fed the wonderful families and staff at the Ronald McDonald House in San Francisco. After the warm welcome I received in January, Don joined in the fun and helped out with our February dinner. Everyone enjoyed the meal which ended with Triple Chocolate Brownie Sundaes (not in the picture). Staff, who were not on duty, came in just to eat with us; a family I’d met in January who’s little one was discharged from the hospital, came back just to say hello and share some food.
It warms my heart to be able to do this, to offer a bit of normalcy to people who’s lives are turned upside down when their child is so ill. As much as this does for them, it does as much, or more, for me. I am filled with gratitude today for all that I have and the health and safety of our family. (You have the same opportunity to feel this good 😉
On technical note. If you read the menu from the last posting, you will see that there was only a turkey and not the ham along with it. Well, when the turkey came off the smoker on Sunday night, we deboned it, there was only 5 lbs of meat in a 12 lb bird. Hmmmmm, that wasn’t going to do. Water injected and deboned, the loss of 7 lbs was surprising. Don popped out in the morning, picked up a 10lb ham and voila, meat for the crowd.
We’re scheduling the next meal for March.