Grandma Honey

Hailey started school this week. 
Mill Valley seems to be on their own schedule.

So my brother Richard (Hailey's grandpa)  sent her 'first day of school list' to me.
Many adults don't understand life  as well as she apparently does. And she's only in 3rd grade! 
And she is as beautiful as ever.  We miss her!

I won't show you their actually apartment yet, since they are still in the process of unpacking....
But here is our little lunch together yesterday afternoon.
Dad arrived from their apartment down the hall in his motorized chair.
The tables are always ready.

Look what was on the menu for today.

Start out with our choice of salad: green, jello, cottage cheese, fruit, or today's special of lentil salad.

I chose the lentil salad and it was so so good that I'm trying to recreate it at home.  It had celery, onions, raisins, red peppers, a few assorted beans and it tasted like a vinaigrette dressing.

I don't usually eat steak and potatoes, but this was delicious!

There are many activities offered here at Yosemite Gardens. One such is called, "Romeos"  It stands for: "Retired Old Men Eat Out Sometimes" I guess once a month the men who want to, get on a bus and go out to dinner together.
And who should we run into as we were leaving? Our friend Jill Thomp…

I found this in the current Reader's Digest. 
Fascinates me. 

Notice how Moms take off birthing on July 4-5th?  I think that's because many births are scheduled now. But what about back in the day?  I don't think the holidays would have made much difference.  Babies use to just come when they wanted to. 
Also, I never knew July-Sept are such popular months to be born in. I wonder why that is? Sept 16th the most common birthday ever? Interesting, because I have 2 siblings born that week...the 12th (today) and the 18th. So apparently my parents were right on schedule with the rest of the world.
January and April aren't all that popular. Why? And look how everyone takes Christmas week off.

Tyler's 5th grade teacher didn't like him. She said he asked too many questions.
For the first time ever, Tyler did not like school.
Then he came home one day and announced he was put into the lowest reading group.
That would have been fine had he not been at the top of his class up until then.
Something was wrong. I didn't let Tyler know this at the time, but I went in and talked to Mrs. S.

This was 16 years ago but I remember when I asked Mrs. S why Tyler
was in the lowest reading group she said, "That is how he tested! I can only go by how he tested."
I asked if she would mind testing him again because I told her he was an excellent reader.
He read all the time, he loved to read.

She said something about how she can only test him once or twice a year and that was it.

It also didn't matter to her when I said Tyler had always loved school in the past
and something was wrong this year. I wanted to understand so I could help him.
I tried to choose my words c…

To see our grandson Robbie get baptized!


Matt, Emily, Robbie Aren't they beautiful?  (I think Matt looks like his Grandpa when he was that age.)
Robbie and cousin Rachel
Oh these 2 handsome men! Grandpa and Robbie
Robbie and Ryan
Sure glad we got to spend some time with Robbie last summer.

In case you missed it, we had the best time! 
I think this was about hour 10 of our party...