By the time it was over about a quarter of the class had someone there, but with the times being what they are many grandparents are still working and many probably do not have their grandparents living close by. So while I was happy for Becca that all of her grandparents were there I felt sorry for most of the children who did not have anyone.
Our own children faced this most of the time as we lived far enough from both sets of grandparents that they could not come to these activities when they were in school. That is one reason that I tried to go to as many of the children's events as I could.
One of the activities for the day was the children had received a five dollar gift from the PTA to buy books at the Scholastic Book Fair; Becca had already spent hers...a true Roush! So each set of her grandparents gave her ten dollars to by a book for herself and Alexis.
After school let out we took the books and poster that Becca got to her house; Becca rides the bus so she went with the bus. When we got to her house there was no one home, so while we waited I got out my garden tools that I keep in the car and pulled clover out of their lawn.
As I was doing that Tami and Becca came walking down the street from the bus stop; Tami had taken Archie for a walk while she was waiting for Becca's bus to arrive. We waited around for awhile while Tami went to pick Alexis up from her school and then we played with all of them for a while. Before long both girls were cuddled up on my lap and probably could have gone to sleep without much trouble at all.
I went outside for a while this afternoon and thought about doing some work in the gardens but I realized that I was too tired and decided to go inside and rest for a while. The rest eventually lead in me falling asleep in my chair and by the time I woke up I decided that I would forgo the yard work as it appeared that I was running on fumes and needed to recharge my energy level.
This afternoon Andrea came over and she and Kathleen went to look at some yarn. The had not come back by 1800 so I heated up some left-over macaroni and cheese that Kathleen made last night.
