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    Hallowweeeeennnnn!

    It’s that time of year again!

    Hooray!

    I love the planning, scheming, crafting, and creating that precedes October 31st.

    Once Tate gets old enough, we’ll let him start picking his own costumes. In the meantime, I’m trying to seize the opportunity to create family costumes.

    Just like last year, we decided to let Henry pick his costume first, and then we built everyone else’s costumes around his (it was a circus theme, and Tate was a strong man). This year Henry decided to be a lion. He didn’t leave us with much to work with beyond The Wizard of Oz (which he doesn’t know anything about), lions-and-tigers-and-bears-oh-my, a pride … Read More

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    Around Here Lately

    What a hiatus. 

    I’m sorry! 
    Life has been just-barely-hanging-on around here. Being the principal of a start-up school is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. Being the principal of a start-up school on top of being a mother pretty much takes every last ounce of energy that I can muster. 
    But I really want to get back into blogging. It’s my reflection space. It’s my planning space. It’s my space to connect with each of you and to draft the kind of life I want to write for myself (and revise, revise, revise!).

    I’ve been through so many changes in the past 3.5 years. I gave birth to Henry, I

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    Shower Board as a DIY White Board

    I’m finally getting around to sharing our DIY white board! It was a cinch to make. First, we purchased a piece of inexpensive shower board from Home Depot. We were happy with the 4′ x 8′ piece. If we had needed a smaller piece, we would have asked them to cut it on site. Shower board is literally the stuff that goes inside a shower.
    Next, we screwed it into the wall. Then we used trim to frame it. (And by “we” I mean our friend Chris who volunteered to help with that part of it in exchange for a cooking lesson.) Then we caulked everything, primed it, and painted
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