Grand events all around

Marc and his iPhone at Grandparent's Day

Our social calendar filled up last week with grand events.
We had one grandson ask us to come up for lunch (in Garfield) and another pair asked us up for breakfast (in Bountiful).
We had Valentine books to deliver all around and so we hit the road.
One of the boys has just recently moved here to snowy, frozen Utah from sunny California and so his invitation came with a little more urgency than others. One set of grandparents are on a mission and others work so retired ones are wonderfully available.
There's nothing more sad than a grandchild on Grandparent Day without a grandparent.
(We've been invited to a number of Grandparent Day events and we usually try to go so we can see their desks, meet their classmates and get a free cookie.)
For Jack, this would be the first one possible. I only had to reschedule a doctor's appointment and put my pillow in the car for the road trip.
We had to leave at 8 a.m. to be in Fielding by 10:30 a.m. and choose a drumstick or grilled cheese lunch entree with chocolate milk.
Turns out it was a great day.
We met a lot of really nice little kids. (One girl told me she liked my wedding ring. Another helped me figure out whether the strawberry jello was good to eat. One or two offered to share a cookie.)
I got to choose what I did or did not eat. No rules for oldsters.
We listened to a 3rd-grade rendition of "All You Need is Love!" and rocked out to pop music for inside recess time.
A couple of days earlier, Marc visited West Bountiful Elementary for breakfast.
We motored on down the road to visit with a little brother and sister and then over the hill to Smithfield to see another set of siblings.
We found giggles and smiles everywhere we went which is good.
We are finding the invitations to Grandparent's Day welcome.
We see the kids in their educational setting and get a feel for how their schools work.

Jack (in glasses) on stage just behind little brother.

Sometimes we "get" the opportunity to visit the Book Fair and buy books (or erasers or markers or funny pens with little plastic toppers.)
It's always interesting and we are ALWAYS glad we came.
As the years roll by, we recognize that these kinds of opportunities are fleeting and precious.
Bring it on!