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{Written early Wednesday…} We made it! Getting everyone’s stuff, plus a ton of food, plus six bodies, into the SUV was tough, but we managed. We left later than...

Yesterday was…overwhelming. A lot of errands with my kids and then more errands alone. A lot of shopping. A lot of running in to grab one thing. A lot of ...

I’ve been thinking a lot about the “why” of this blog. Why do I keep writing it? Why, after long absences, do I come back here? It’s not...

My daughter has a cold, so we kept her home from camp today. Actually, she had a sore throat on Tuesday afternoon, but we assumed it was the heat and her mask a...

There are ways I remember the tunnel. They aren’t necessarily distinct, and I don’t always remember them in order. They overlap too, because each de...

I started packing my classroom yesterday. I got six boxes finished. I would have packed more but I had to spend a couple hours taking apart the binders of my st...

The past two weeks have been busy. Very busy. A lot of what was planned was really fun, but it didn’t leave for much free time. {Some of what kept us busy...

Monday and Tuesday I held my final zoom meetings in each class. Wednesday I waved goodbye to each 8th grader as they drove through our Promotion Celebration. Th...

I was going to write a post tonight – a real one! – but instead I sewed a bunch of patches on my son’s ki for martial arts camp that starts th...

My daughter turns 11 in a week. We celebrated with friends yesterday because one of her crew is out of town for the next two weeks. We went down to my mom’s fri...