CHUCK-A-RAMA GRANDMA

Sun, Mar 25
   Through the miracle of texting, 48 of us Crazy Carlisle's ended up at Chuck-A-Rama for lunch last Sunday afternoon.  When Grandma pulled up to the restaurant she said, "Oh look how crowded it is...we will never get a table."  And then it began to dawn on her that all the people waiting outside were here kids, grandkids and great grandkids!

   What an amazing thing to have so many of us gathered together at one place with so little planning or notice.   

   Even Neil and Katie Jane who had been canyoneering in southern Utah over the weekend, just happened to be passing by the restaurant while we were there and were able to join us. 

 
   While we don't usually eat out on the Sabbath, there was something special about this event.  In Grandma's journal she wrote,

"For some reason I felt as if the Lord was smiling down upon us and this was a gift from Him and Grandpa."

   I remember as a small girl on several occasions when Dad would give Mom a break on Sunday by taking the family out to dinner to Chuck-A -Rama.  This is still one of my fondest memories as a little girl of my Dad.

P.S.  As I was checking out, the manager of the restaurant mentioned that he and several of the servers noticed something "remarkable" about our family.  They were astonished that we were all able to sit together in the same room during a busy Sunday afternoon.  He said, "We all felt something special enter when your family arrived."