I decided to write a little before Mom drives me to school in an hour or so. From my room I smell breakfast cooking and this is the first morning since Grandpas fall that things seem back to somewhat normal. Grandpa came home on Sunday from the hospital and is recovering slowly although "one never knows for sure how the brain will recover from such an injury" said the doctor. We now have a nurse looking after Grandpa and her name is Anna. She works for an "agency" that provides home nurses. I think that having Anna around has been a big relief for everyone and it has only been one day since she started. Grandpa seems to like her but Dad says that with the medication for his pain that he should like her a whole lot when its time for his next pills. The doctor said that as long as Grandpa rests and doesn't try to get up too much that he should get better, but that the "mild stroke" he had should cause Grandpa to have problems doing simple things that he used to do fine before. I was curious what that might be and how I could help and the doctor said that I could keep talkng to him as much as possible to help keep his mind sharp. I said that I will try but "sometimes Grandpa Jem doesn't feel like talking". Dad then said that I should write him letters so that it will help Grandpa to remember things in case he starts to forget. I agreed and today at school during free period I will write him a letter telling him about my morning classes. I will try to remember to post it later.

Gretchen and I haven't seen very much of each other lately because of my trips to the hospital to see Grandpa and she has been spending a lot of time with her friend Beth who lives on the other side of the county. Her Mom has agreed to allow Gretchen to finish the trimester here which means she'll be staying until the end of July, but which also means that she will only be here for two more months. Gretchen and I are going to go see the X-men this weekend with Cousin Bruce, which will be great.
The blanket was designed by Paul Palcko and it shows the nurse as an earth angel. Mr. Grady said that it is ok to use images from the internet like I have because I am not trying to make money with my blog, but that I be sure to give the artist credit for his or her work of art. I usually only show pictures that I like so I really like telling everyone who made the artwork anyways. So, if anyone out there wants to send me pictures of their artwork then I will put it on my blog for the whole world to see. I had forgot to write that when I used a couple photographs before that they were made by my friend Amy Caterina from Orange County. I would like to see more photographs from Amy of flowers or other things and I also would like to see more pictures by "Cornbread" Anderson. Speaking of cornbread, Mom is telling me that breakfast is ready.