20111111 - Nice Day

20111111 - Up and Gma&paB here.  J walked off to school and L headed in to school for parent teacher conferences.  DG, Gma&paB & I then headed to D's school where we had a really nice Veterans' Day program.  A young man played the bagpipes as the Veterans walked in each kid got to introduce the poerson that had come with them.  There was singing and the band performed a few numbers.  D got to introduce his Gpa, but didn't tell everyone all the stuff he did while he was in service.  It was a very emotional ceremony. We headed home and took D with us because he had a bad cough and L was going to try and get him into the Dr. later today...

Home and we had some time to kill before heading back to J's school so GpaB and I used a repair kit on the windshield of the GMC to see if it would fix a crack while GmaB tried to stay warm, G play the iPad and D watched TV and messed with his iTouch.  It worked pretty well.  Soon we headed back to through the backyard.  D stayed behind to wait on L, but Penn a buddy with a son in second grade joined us on the walk back to the school.  We got checked in and headed to J's class where we hung out for a bit before heading down to a yummy turkey dinner.  The boys hardly ate a thing, but that was ok, it meant more for me ;-)  After our lunch we headed back to J's class where we hung out for a while until the kids had to go to art.  We couldn't go to art so we went and hung out n the gym and watched the kids play with a parachute and G&I played hot-hands and thumb wrestled until the kids started pouring in for their Veterans' Day assembly.  L joined us and the kids sang, the Veterans introduced themselves and more singing.  It was a very emotional Afternoon...

LG & Gma&paB headed home and I went back to J's class to finish the day.  I had some fun conversations with the kids and it was fun to see J in action.  He is very popular at school...  J&I home and J drew some pictures for Gma&pa and everyone else relaxed while L took D to the Dr.  When they got home from the Dr. the diagnosis was 'a bad cough'.  Well DUH!  but no meds...  We hung out a bit ore and then all headed to one of our new favorite Italian places for dinner where we ate ourselves out of our seats...

Back home and Gma&paB headed home.   The boys got cleaned up and we met in the basement to watch a movie and start cleaning out the basement.  All boys to bed and I am siting up reading the responses to the letters I sent out last night.  They make me very emotional...

What a great day with great people.

Thanks for the bonus 12 years Big Guy!