Olive Is Nine - and Doing Mighty Fine!

by Pa Rock
Proud Grandpa

Olive Noel Macy, the oldest of my two beautiful granddaughters, is turning nine-years-old today.  Olive lives with her parents and little brother, Sully, in a small town in Kansas that is very near Kansas City.  

Olive is officially a third-grader, although since last spring most of her schooling has taken place at home in front of a computer.  She and so many others had their classroom learning interrupted last March when the pandemic began sweeping across the land and most schools sent their students home to learn virtually with computers.  Olive may have been more fortunate than some of her classmates because her parents are very tech-savvy and have an assortment of devices that are hooked to the internet.

In her spare time Olive studies acting - also over the internet.  She is fortunate in that endeavor as well because her father writes movies and will one day undoubtedly pen a part that will be just perfect for her!

I know that in the past year Olive has enjoyed her family tradition of going to see the play, "A Christmas Carol," at the Kansas City Rep, and that she has been on family trips to south Texas to visit with her great-grandparents and to rural Mississippi for a camping vacation.  She and her family were also able to stop at my house briefly on their way back from Mississippi.  But other than those getaways, Olive and her brother have pretty much been homebound.

Pa Rock hopes that things will return to normal during this year.  Being stuck at home is no fun - especially when you are nine and bursting to get outside and romp and stomp and enjoy life!

Happy birthday, Sweetie!  I hope you get many nice prezzies and have a wonderful day!

Pa Rock will see you soon!

IMPORTANT UPDATE:

Since posting this piece about Olive's birthday this morning, I have received an important news bulletin.  As of today, Olive is back at her real school sitting in a real third grade classroom with other real students. It is their first day of actual school for the school year!

I hope you had a wonderful first day back at school, Olive!