The extra tests are because it’s her last year of elementary school; we suspect that Kia will have the extras next year for her last year of middle school. For now, Kia’s just enjoying her comparatively easy test week and,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It was unfortunate that we missed the full autumn colours – a bit of windy and rainy weather beat us there by just a couple of days – but it was still really nice there. Not so peaceful when you’re[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
They did enjoy themselves on the fieldtrip, which involved a lot of walking through some very old forest (on the one freakin’ day that it rained this week) with a guy who’s studied trees for over twenty years, so we[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
How they lay things out is that they’ve got a spot for each grade’s teachers to hangout and meet students, but before the students can get to their current teachers, most of them stop and say hi to every single[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Kia’s grown almost an inch and a half just over the summer; she thought that her dress had shrunk when she got ready for her first-day-back photo. Nope, you’re just growing like crazy. For our extended family that saw her[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So, this group of five or six girls goes running out onto the field to talk to the woman who was coordinating the event and she is ALL in on it. She had a loudspeaker and called the teachers right[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Arwyn is “tired” pretty much every schoolday morning, but is totally fine on weekends or days off. Heck, she’s even good to do a little Beatsaber to get the blood pumping in the mornings; it’s not until class starts that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I remember a couple of snow days when I was a kid, but there had to be like a foot of snow before that happen. Six inches? Pft, get your butts to class. There was only once (in high school)[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We all know that it’s the same thing with work: Vacations are never long enough. Time off passes in a blink and we’re back to reality, though I think that the experience is worse for kids because they don’t have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
They met the boy while they were playing with an exhibit that had a fan blowing up a big, three-foot diameter tube and some very thin fabric sheets that they could effectively launch out of the tube, then play catch[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…