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When I was a kid a lot was made of my birthday. My summer birthday was celebrate multiple times – in May with my classmates, on my actual birthday in July...

Well we did it! We made it through Phase 1! My son left this morning and now it’s just the (infinitely easier) group of girls. All the mom’s come later today an...

{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...