Day of awards

Thursday was a day of awards. In the morning we awarded the first annual Dorothy Preston Silver Scholarship in memory of my mom. The family read through a few applications and voted on a winner. The goal was to award the scholarship to someone who had overcome a lot. It was really nice to hand out the award at Madison Central. The student who received the scholarship had definitely been through a lot and I believe she will go on to bigger and better things.
Later in the day TPG "graduated" from preschool. I think preschool, kindergarten, middle school, graduations are a little strange and I am not a huge fan of them. I mean, should we really celebrate something that is really an expectation? Anyway, it was a fairly low key event which was good. The students got up and sang two songs. Then they each got to go to the podium and say their name, age, the name of the school they would be attending in the fall and what they liked to learn about. TPG
has a tendency to be a little shy (I am not making that up, I swear, he can be shy) but he was the first kid to go and he stood up there and did great. We all got to eat lunch with the kids. The plan was not NOT make contact with DCG because we were going to bring TPG home with us and leave DCG at school until later in the day. But, to no avail. She spotted us and was pretty much inconsolable until I told her I was not going to leave her there.

We all went home and TTG and his dad (grandpa G.) begin working on a project in the yard. We have great neighbors beside us but they only way we can visit eachother is to walk all the way around the block. So, we decided to put in a gate between our yards. It turned out GREAT! We have already used it many times.

Last award, I promise. TPG then had to go to TaeKwonDo. Last time I mentioned TKD TPG had just earned his blue belt. Well, since then he earned a red belt and on Thursday he had the opportunity to earn a black belt (not really a black belt but a white belt with a black stripe) which would give him the title of Senior Captain of the Little Dragons. He has been working really hard for this and it finally happened. He was very proud.