My daughter’s fifth grade teacher told my wife and I that we should make sure to attend today’s awards presentation at school. We did, although my wife had to return to work before it was through.

There really isn’t another way to put it. Amy cleaned up. She walked off with something like 10 certificates and awards. One of these was the school’s highest honor, the Engel Award, which honors the memory of a man who died in 1935. He left behind a fund to benefit the highest academic achievers in the elementary schools in town. It is awarded to the top three students, with what are apparently incremental bonds for each place. Amy was first.

We celebrated with ice cream this evening, of course.

I should add that Amy’s older sister was one of last year’s Engel Award recipients.

Okay, bragging over.