Shirley that is great news :-) I hope they will continue to do great for you and you will add more as time goes by. Grandparents breakfast went great. Except for the part that SO many were there...people were getting ugly about squeezing together a little so everyone has a seat. Forgetting that they had their grandchild right there with them and it was about enjoying the special moment. Picture will follow once I am home...have no upload cord with me. You are so welcome Lucy

I know how you feel... I'm watching my great grandson, probably everyday this week. He's three and is a busy busy boy...into everything and doesn't know how to walk...he runs everywhere.. I have a heck of a time trying to keep up with him. About the time I get used to watching him it will be over. I have to be honest here...part of how pooped I am is because we have two large areas in our yard that has a hill of dirt I've been trying to rake down and even out. One is an old burn pile spot. It is full of broken concrete blocks and pieces of metal. I've been pulling them out so it will just be soil there. We plan to have a nice round burn area, with block around it to have hot dog roasts and such. Anyway I put Marcus (ggson) to work. He actually did a lot of work. But so did I... But he got a whole lot more dirt on him than I did...8) Tomorrow I plan to have some of those long balloons to make balloon animals for him. And maybe a couple of kids garden tools to use...I had to keep my eye out to make sure the hoe didn't hit me in the head.

Hi...Finally down from the attic. Been there all day and got almost everything done. DH helped me today and we stopped to have supper about an hour ago(went out to Wendy's with my parents). Ugh, what a long day. DD watched the little one all day for us. I did cancel the flu shots and put off d-day for my baby for another few days. The guy who is doing the installation called this morning and said he wanted everything stacked down the middle of the attic instead of all at one end like he said before. Sooooo, we had to move and restack all the bins I had moved to the far end. Sorted thru lots of things that just got stuck up there when we moved from the downstairs MIL apartment to upstairs and hadn't been gone thru. About 4 big bins of craft wood pieces and projects that I want to paint. Just everything that we don't have room for, but don't want to part with...you know how it goes. Anyway, we pared down big time and have all our garbage cans full (garbage day on Friday so I don't know where we'll put our regular trash this week!) and our trailer is piled up with junk, a bunch of stuff going to the TS and I still have all the kids toys to go thru. They don't have enough room for all their favorite toys so we swap them out from the attic every 6 months or so and it's like they have new toys again. Youngest DD is very good at purging, the other kids like to hang on to everything, but to their credit they do play with it all. It's mostly action figures. I have a whole bin full of Rescue Heros that I think I'm going to donate to my church nursery or the shelter. Little kids love them, but my kids have outgrown them. So we'll end up with maybe 2 bins to put back in the attic. The good thing is that we got rid of all the cardboard boxes and bags and put everything neatly in plastic bins that stack up so nicely and take up way less space. So we got all our stuff sorted and stacked, but my parents still have a bunch of stuff up there to tackle. I told my DM I'd help her go thru her stuff. I think it's mostly books. They just got back from the deer hunt last night late. They were gone for 2 weeks so they are still unpacking their camper and washing, etc. You know I already have a bad back and I haven't done it any favors by doing this, but I'll take a Tylenol PM (they knock me out)ha and a heat pack and hopefully I'll get some rest tonight. It's only 8 something and I'm ready to go to bed. ha You have a good one and I'll see ya later. I'm gonna go soak in a hot tub and hit the hay! ~Anj

It's not like that in our local elementary school. Grandparents are invited to lunch. They may go to the classroom right before lunch, and walk back to the classroom with their grandchildren after lunch. But the kids walk back and forth in a line calmly just like always. The teachers are right there supervising, as always. After lunch, the grandparents can take a few minutes in the classroom admiring the drawings, bulletin boards, etc., but then everyone is expected to leave and let the regular classroom continue uninterrupted. I've never seen any tours of the whole school given on Grandparents Day. The only major difference I see on Grandparents Day is that the cafeteria is more crowded than usual, and sometimes tables are put up in an adjoining hallway outside the cafeteria. And the cafeteria is decorated. But PTA volunteers and the school staff make sure everything goes smoothly. I feel that our local elementary school provides plenty of opportunities for kids to move around, laugh and play. But traveling through the halls is always orderly. And I've never seen anything remotely like the grinding described in elementary school.