Grandmotherly Interlude, with Owie Update

Today was ScholarBoy1's (my oldest grandson)  3rd birthday party, which was a wild success. His British maternal grandparents were there, huzzah! -- I do so like them both.

The rule of thumb is "one guest per year of age", which was broken with abandon --there were about 13 kids.

Here's what made it work --

• It was held at a local 1/8 scale model railway layout, so there was some exciting (but sitting with parents or other adults) time riding the rails
• There were lots of other things to do, like crafts in the shade, rocks to stir,  and an empty road on which to run run run, if you didn't want to ride the rails
• There were approximately 2.5 adults per 3 year old
• The party lasted from 11 am to 1 pm, with a lunch interlude at about 12:15.
• The cake was the last bit

I really enjoyed meeting ScholarManPhD and ScholarWomanPhD's friends.    It was also fascinating to watch the social and physical differences in development of a big passel of  kids, all around the same age.

The owie update -- well, on flat ground (like pavement) I'm walking pretty normally.  Yesterday I walked around 3 miles total, in two goes.  Today, around the railroad, I was limping pretty much, but sitting on the railcars didn't hurt at all.

The deal is though that my endurance is pretty poor.  I can't tell though if it was from having grandmotherly eyes all over, looking for kids about to hurt themselves, or from standing and walking for most of four hours (the pre--party set-up and the clean-up), but I was completely knackered by the time I got into the car to go home.

Comments

[Andy]

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[Barbara]

Congrats on a successful party for a 3-year-old! No small feat!

Congrats on your physical recovery, too. Four hours of standing and walking would knacker (British term?) me, too. Were you fully recovered energy-wise by the next day or later that evening? Pain-free function first, endurance second, eh?