Happy day-before-Valentine’s Day, which for us, of course, is the real Valentine’s Day–the day David and I met, twelve years ago. 🙂 I have begun to love red roses this year, and it meant a lot to me when he thought to buy these for me while we were out today. Do pardon the lovely […]
Zia received the December-January SOAR award last week. The teachers had a little award ceremony for the SOAR students and parents Thursday at 7 am (yawn). They had a breakfast buffet in the school library with cereal, juice, muffins, danish, and doughnuts–since of course everyone knows the very best way to start a kid’s day […]
Yesterday we attending the schoolkids’ annual Tommyknockers celebration. The kids decorate the town tree with handmade ornaments, then walk to the opera house and listen to a storyteller. On the way out the “Clauses” hand out goody bags. Cash got one, too, and was beaming from ear to ear until he opened it (he thought […]
I was walking home from buying some groceries when… I saw a banana attack a pizza! The banana was just lying there when it got up very fast! The pizza got up and tried to run away but it was too fat. The pizza was just too slow to escape the banana! It tried to […]
We were pretty stoked when Zia’s study on Fruit Decay took 2nd place for her grade level at the science fair Thursday. Her friend Lola got 1st, which made both of them very happy. 🙂 There were lots of ties (one was a 5-way tie!) which I actually thought was nice, since more kids got […]
