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Last weekend, we went up to Ottawa for a belated birthday party for Gramma. (She turned 90 on July 29th.) It was so nice to see her and everybody who came from miles away to celebrate her many years.

I have to admit that it was hard for me, very hard. Gramma’s memory is practically gone and she remembers or recognizes very few people. I was not one of those people. When Mom passed away, Gramma took up a position of confidante and advisor to me. We would have wonderfully long phone calls and yearly visits. I would love it when she would come to visit and sit in my office, reading her paper. Just being with me.

What I did love about this visit was seeing that she’s still in there somewhere. And more than anything, I’m so happy that she got to meet Claire. I’m sure she had no idea who Claire was, but for the entire afternoon, she kept her eye on Claire. Watching what she was doing. Even the occasional comment about Claire.

Claire didn’t really know what to think of Gramma and since she was tired and cranky (no nap that afternoon) she would gripe every time I brought her over to see Gramma. But once Gramma had a plate full of cake in front of her, EVERYTHING changed. They were best friends for 10 minutes.

And I got the picture I wanted more than any other:

It was Julien's first day of school today at his new school. Many differences with his previous school, most notably the uniform. After many complaints about it for the last couple of weeks, I think in the end he rather liked the way he looked. When he came home from school, I had to convince him to take it off.
I walked Julien into school this morning. It seemed it was more for me than for him, as he was ready to bail out of the car at the door to school.

Another difference for Julien is that at his other school, he never sat at an assigned desk. He could even work on the floor or on a couch or even outside. At his new school, as most children, he will have an assigned desk. He was excited about that!

(I'm trying a new blog writer on my Mac. Hopefully, the formatting will work out, especially for my photos. So far, it's easy to use, and easy to insert more than one photo. Cool!)

This is the Bomp with the first post.

Well, after months of no Blog, the Grammy and Bompie roadshow is back on the air.

Our hosting site changed their software, and everything from our old Blog became unavailable.  It’s still not here, but the family computer genius is actively working on it, so hopefully all the old Blogging will magically reappear.