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Thoughts on Making the World a Better Place
Oh, I am getting teary-eyed (no, it’s not because I’m pregnant and a gazillion hormones are coursing through my body). It’s because the first crop of third graders I taught in Franklin, Louisiana (a small, rural town two hours away from New Orleans and one hour away from Lafayette) just graduated from high school.… Read MoreI got this message from one of my former students:
hey ms cotner,I’m just trying to keep you informed with how I’m doing. I am officially a grown up now. i graduated number nine in my class and that’s something that I’m very proud of. I’m currently in summer school at Louisiana State University. I’m
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Game Recommendations
Anyone out there like to play board games and card games?I have two new recommendations to add to my list: Quiddler and SET.… Read MoreQuiddler is a fun word game that has some elements of Rummy in it. To start, each player is dealt three cards with letters on them. The goal is to make a word. On your turn, you can either draw a letter from the discard pile or pick a new card. Once a player “goes down,” then the other players have one more turn before they, too, must put down their words. Points are awarded based on the letters you used. In the next round, the
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Matt and I Are Having a Baby!
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I am honestly in a happy state of shock. I was on Day 39 of my cycle.* I came home from an all-day photography class and decided to finally take a pregnancy test (I was so resisting turning into a crazy-obsessive tester). Matt went into the backyard to check on the chickens, and I peed on the stick. Right away, I could see that both lines were starting to darken, so I left it there and went out to fetch Matt. I wanted us to experience it together.
On my way to the backyard, I found myself wondering why I didn’t wait just one more day to take the test,
