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Intentions for Vacation
Vacation is upon us! It’s hard to fully embrace the feeling of “vacation” when I have to get a school open in fewer than 50 days, but it is time for vacation. And we only get to live this wild and precious life once, so I don’t want to lose sight of this time. And I am freaked out by the fact that 14 years ago I joined Teach For America and moved to rural Louisiana to teach 3rd grade in a town with only five stoplights. It doesn’t seem long ago at all. In 14 more years, Henry will be 17 years old and heading into his senior… Read More -
New Toys for Henry
We’re finally getting to a place where it feels like the toys we buy for Henry will be developmentally appropriate for years and years. For example, he loves these legos now, and I’m sure will get many years of use out of them.Plus, I like to minimize the amount of toys that are available at one time and instead rotate through them (which was hard to do when we didn’t have very many toys). Now that summer is hear and Henry is home full-time, here are some of the new toys he has available:- Tennis racket (inspired by Kylie’s recent post–although I am never as together as Kylie so
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I Can See Clearly Now
On Friday night I was e-mailing back and forth with a friend of mine from college who serves as the volunteer IT service provider for the school I’m working to start. Our website is experiencing a glitch, and she was helping me sort it out. We finally realized I needed more storage area on the server. Rather than purchase more, I was asking her if there was anything we could delete. The thing taking up the most space was my old wedding website (not 2000 Dollar Wedding, but our actual site for guests). I asked her to give me a chance to read through out one last time before she… Read More
