Off To Sunny and Hot Scottsdale(90's) For the Week

Tommy's family

With the Grandchildren

Granny with Marlena and Nick

The Prodigy

Up around 6:40 and Nick was already downstairs and ready for school.  He was eating a blueberry muffin and watching ESPN on the tube.  Obviously, his school starts early, so he catches his bus around 6:55, his first class is at 7:30.  All research suggests that kids his age really are not awake and ready to learn until about 9:00 in the morning, that early classes are very unproductive.  Wake up Lee's Summit, don't let buses determine school learning.  It is a lovely day outside, the wind has died down mostly, the sun's out and it's cooler (49 degrees), in the 60's later, a perfect day here in Lee's Summit.

Decorating Easter cookies, A Week late

Yesterday, we relaxed here in the morning, took a brief walk with Bella but it was so windy, it was not fun.  We had potato pancakes, steak, and eggs for breakfast, a trucker breakfast, as Nick called it.  We devoured the left overs from Friday night, a great way to start the morning.  Mary's parents came over around 1:00, and we sat and chatted with them until we went off to the Piano Store for the Marlena's piano recital.  There were about 25 kids on the docket, the room filled with parents and friends.  It went fairly quickly, fortunately, and it was fun to watch the kids perform, even if we didn't know them.  The singers were a bit painful at times, the pianists and guitarist more bearable and Marlena, of course, was magnificent, a prodigy, my granddaughter.  The highlight was a young boy who played the guitar and sang American Pie.  He had the best voice of the group and played the guitar with aplomb, despite his age.  It was as much fun watching his parents and grandparents as it was him, they were so proud.

After the recital, we went off to BW 3 for wings and things.  It's Nick's favorite place.  Most of us got wings, though Evie's salad was too hot to really enjoy.   Unfortunately, the service was poor, the wings not up to the usual, so it was not as much fun as we had hoped.

The cookies

We went home for an hour, relaxed by watching The Red Balloon, which Marlena loved, then Tom, Nick, Evie, Tom's father in law, and I went off to Nick's basketball game in Kansas, about thirty minutes away. This is a new team for Nick, made up mostly of kids from his junior high school.  They played at a huge public school, with two large gyms, both of them filled with teams and fans on a Sunday night.  They even charged admission to the games, a first at this level.  Nick's team lost in the last minute by one point.  Nick played well, has improved both defensively and offensively and fit in well with the team.  I kept my yelling at a minimum with Evie's help.

We got home around 9:30, watched some TV and went to bed before 11:00, tired and ready for sleep.  A good day.