Last Full Day

Grandma set her iPhone alarm for 7am, but was up way before that and forgot about the alarm.  Kevin was not very pleased with the alarm ringing in his room, plus he couldn't get it to stop ringing.  Meanwhile I could not hear it from the kitchen.  At 7:04, I went upstairs to waken the boy and found him drowsily awake and not very happy.  ha! 

I went to visit the manager of the cemetery today and learned they already know about the problem.  I had noted several other markers have the same problem, though not as bad as Karin's.  Hers is the worst.  The company which produced the bronze markers realized those made within a certain time frame did not receive the coating to keep them protected and are refurbishing and recoating those markers.  The manager said they are sending a few away at a time and notifying the family that the marker will be missing for a few weeks.  She promised Karin's will be sent away at the end of January and will be back in place and beautiful by spring.  

Grandma picked up the boy from school and met his 2nd grade teacher as he walked up behind her, hugged her, and she tossled his hair saying he is her angel and such a special boy.  She wishes all her students were like Kevin. 

I offered to take him for a treat, but he wanted to come home and play hide-the-thimble.  So we did, followed by hide and seek.  There aren't many places a grandma can hide!  And the places Kevin found were rather tight!!!! 

Kevin was feeling a little sore after the above hiding spot, so we switched to board games.  We played Guess Who, Clue (his first time), and Disney Trivia (also his first time).  We both were BAD at the Disney game!  We need to see the movies all over again.  Karin probably could have answered every question.  She was such a Disney freak! 

The big brothers are gone:  Cullin has returned to college and Stephan is at his Dad's this week.  So they missed my farewell dinner I treated the family to at an Asian restaurant. 

After several days of vacation, Kevin, Grandma, and Mom had forgotten Kevin had homework to do!!!  So we had to take it to the restaurant with us and begin working on it there while waiting for our food.  Then we finished it at home.  His math homework was quite confusing.  :\   They are doing multiplication, and they are teaching him to figure it out a non-orthodox way instead of memorizing the multiplication tables as sane people did.  We got through it, but it was strenuous.