Posts Tagged ‘school’
HDYDI: Get Ready for a New School Year
It’s here. The smell of fresh leather shoes, shiny new backpacks and freshly sharpened pencils. A new school year is arrived and I’d be the biggest, fattest liar if I told you I was ready. But, here we are. Just nine days out and it’s time to get my lazy hiney in gear. With four…
Read MoreSummer Has Arrived, What That Really Means
Our last day of school was last Friday. I had my doubts if we would make it to the end in one piece, but the miracle happened. Hallelujah! I somehow managed to make it to four class parties, eat something resembling lunch and arrive to the van intact. Poor Clare just got to see her…
Read MoreTeacher Gifts, Motherhood and a Few Tears
Today you get a bit of practical teacher gift giving advice tempered with a reflection on motherhood. How bittersweet it is. Crafting and coming up with practical (and inexpensive) teacher gifts has become something of a challenge for me every year. Between the kids, we have nine teachers and aides. Throughout the year, I’m always…
Read MoreHuman Spell Check
It sure is nice when you no longer have to rely on Wikipedia or the spell check on your phone to spell a word correctly. I have Will. My human spell checker. He has always been an avid reader and I believe that’s translated into a heck of a vocabulary. Except, you know, when he puts…
Read MoreEdible Science: The Animal Cell
Last weekend Will kept telling me about his “edible cell project” for science class. Because we only had one million things going on, I must’ve filed it into the “I’ll add that to the later list.” On Sunday evening, he finally got serious and after I looked at his outline, I realized perhaps he should’ve…
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