Jess's Conference and saying goodbye to our grandkids

Well today was a mixed day alright. It was hectic and sad, and proud all at the same time and I'm drained because of it. We celebrated, played, laughed and cried all in one day. I didn't sleep much last night due to the cough from the pneumonia, but I think it was due to a lot of anxiety too, because I knew my kid and grandkids were leaving today. Once they were up we were getting ready with my granddaughter at my side holding on to me and asking question after question about what I was doing. She was really fascinated about the contacts and putting them in my eyeballs, as she said. Then she helped me put on my shorts and my shirt and my shoes and put toothpaste on my toothbrush. I think she knew she was leaving today even though she's only 3, because she just wouldn't leave my side from the moment she got up today. Once we got in the car and went to Petsmart to get puppy stuff she was holding my hand, riding in my cart, asking me tons and tons of questions, pointing everything she saw to me, it was just so funny. Then when we walked out of the store I asked Amanda what else we needed to do and Maddy pipes up and says "feed me". I asked her if she was hungry and she says "yes, you need to buy me food and feed me." She's such a character. So Peter Piper has a lunch buffet right next door so we went there and Maddy and I walked over there while Amanda drove the other kids there. She just talked and talked all the way there. She was so cute. And then when we got there, she ate a little bit and then went to play. Jonny sat there with me playing with me and eating pizza, which was unusual for him. But he was content just playing with me. We left soon and went to get Jessica from school and the van. When we got to the school and I got out of the car Maddy started crying for me. I just think she knew she was going home today. We ran some errands and she stayed with me and Jess and then came home and Maddy and I played and played while Jess took a shower and then they helped Amanda pick up Jess's room. Then came the hard part, saying good bye. Maddy just kept saying bye bye grammy, while Jonny played with me on the car window, it all happened so fast I didn't even get to give Lizzy a kiss goodbye. We hugged them all and kissed them all and the marshmallow puppy goodbye and then we had to leave to for Jess's conference. It was so sad and hard! But luckily we were distracted by the conference and running late. The conference was student led, so Jess was running the show and it didn't matter that we were late. Jess was excited because she got to do it twice, once for me and then again for her dad when he got there after his parent teacher conferences in his room. She did an excellent job and the teacher was very proud of how well she's gotten caught up with as much school as she missed. She only has 2 projects left to complete and she said to do that over next weeks summer break. So that's great. Everyone should be very proud, She's getting over 94% in all subjects and 100% in science and social science, the average grade in writing is only 80% and her grade is 96% and the teacher says she always looks forward to her stories because they're so interesting and inventive. I have to admit, some of her stories, if I hadn't seen her write them myself, I would never have believed she wrote them and hadn't copied them out of a book some where. She really is a good writer. She's strugling a little in division for some reason, but the teacher says that she'll catch on eventually, but not to worry because she's still holding a 94% in math and has multiplication and geometry down pat. All I know is that I've always been really great in math, but I suck in geometry and I had to help her in her makeup homework this weekend and I had to look up the geometry words on the internet to even know what they mean. While she took a math test this morning and got a 98% on it. Don't know where she gets that from, even her dad sucks at math. Anyways, we took her to sonic after school and got her a shake and took her to the book fair and got her a couple of books she wanted for her great effort at school. Then after we got home, got the puppies settled and Jess to bed, the silence hit and I started crying. I mean the silence is a little relaxing, but I miss my kid and my grandkids a lot. I'm sure it won't be as bad tomorrow, but tonight it's just hard. I know, I'm just a glutton for punishment, but I just love the little mongers. I hope they're driving safely and the fact that they're meeting Guy's parents half way and driving the rest of the way with them, makes me feel a lot better. At least they'll have his Dad with them if something happens and his mom to help with the monkeys on the rest of the trip. Well, hope all is well with you all. That's all for today.