Gilkes Journal

Eric, J.J. and I visited Nanny at the nursing home. Nanny is 94 years old and has been doing very well until recently when it was necessary to make sure she had more professional type care. We walked into her room and she was dressed very nice, sitting on the edge of her bed reading a book. We sat down with her to chat and I was trying to find out how she spends her day, I asked if there are games for them to play like checkers or chess or something. Her response tickled me, she said "Yes, they do have those type games there for them but she doesn't play because they are for the older people."

I guess it is true, you are only as old as you feel!

This is a picture of Nanny at her 90th Birthday party!

Sorry it has taken so long for me to update this site. To say I have been busy would be an understatement. I am the PTO Treasurer at J.J.'s school this year and I have been getting ready for our Fall Fundraiser. It's very time consuming but it's all worth it when we get to see the benefits for the school. The PTO had been saving proceeds from the fundraisers to help get swings for our school playground but the problem was the playground that was there couldn't be used due to the proximity to the portables needed for teaching, our kids have been having to play in an open field. So it turned out the PTO was able to get the ball rolling to have the School Board provide us with a new playground in an acceptable spot, the Scool Board only asked that the PTO contribute the funds they had already raised, we countered that request with a request that they add extra swings to the playground they intended to purchase, they agreed and walah... we were able to get the playground up and running by the start of school. Here are some photos, they're not very good since I took them at night after a PTO meeting and the photos don't do it justice, it is such a nice playground.