Patrick's Graduation.

Well Patrick graduated from pre-school last night. He wore a little graduation cap and a tee shirt with his name on it and 2009 on it. He was cute. They said a little something about each kid and his teacher spent about 3 minutes on him. She said "There were a lot of firsts with Patrick" and "He was different than any other kid". She spent more time on him than any other child and I think the reason was that he was on her mind during the year more than any other kid. He really started straightening up this last few months and was really good in school. Most days he had a "green card".

Mom and Dad came up and it was the first time we'd seen them out of the house for months! Paul and Jane came over. Aaron and Lindsay were down too because she is graduating with her MBA tonight (I'm green with envy). So they all came over and we had a great time. Or at least I did. Mom and Dad were happy to get out of the house and get going. They spent the day in Joplin before coming over. Although Dad doesn't like Independence because of the bad memories. Two of the worst problems are church problems and work problems and both were involved with him.

We had the caviar which had a very salty and fishy taste. I say "we" but it was everyone except for Mom and Jane because they are the party poopers! Anyhoo... You have to get the right mixture of cream cheese which is very tough. It was pretty good though. The snails were hideous and really disappointed me. I think they were bad from the store and it wasn't Miranda's cooking. So off to my next food adventure.

Finally got Nellie some more ice cream sticks so she'll stop bugging us about that. She's persistent if nothing else!

Well I'd better get my day going because no one is going to do it for me apparently.

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