Ten Things Tuesday

1. Started my new teaching gig and I love it! Ok, got some work to do to get these kids to relax and be a little less reticent when it comes to sharing and critiquing, but we have time.  Like, 16 weeks.
2. I came home with a writing sample from each student, so I can [...]

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Momma bird flies North

My chicks are coming home to the nest, and I am heading up to Canada in, oh 5 minutes, to pick them up.
I’m gonna fly r e a l low.
The bus won’t actually pull into the IGA parking lot until Sunday late afternoon, so the plan is to keep extremely preoccupied until then so I [...]

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Ten Things Tuesday – Monkey’s Poem

1. Ahhh, coffee.  I stumble, bleary eyed, to darling husband who hands me a cup.  Our day wouldn’t be right without our coffee on the couch commune every morning. And when I say coffee, I mean black, strong and intense.
2. Yesterday, I faced up to something I had been avoiding – funny, things don’t just [...]

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Ten Things Random Tuesday

1. Do you have a sick book? You know, the book that unflaggingly buoys your fevered mind or achey body as you lie there, feeling pathetic in bed? I have several, but this time, I reached for one of my all time favorites, Sunshine, by Robin McKinley, because its witty and inventive conversational style completely [...]

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Brief and lovely family reunion

After a long drive from Ottawa yesterday, we’re home.  Seeing the kids was incredible and I’m happy to report that despite the constantly psychotic sunny/rainy/windy/cloudy weather extravaganza they are also experiencing 9 hours away, they have been having a great summer. And, they’ve grown in the three weeks it had been since they’d stood next [...]

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Going North to see my babies

Nope, they’re not babies, but I need to squish them. Nibble a little. Get regaled with camp stories, eye rolls, pleas for protein that is NOT chicken, and other good food. Let them shower in actual consistently hot water and sleep in a real bed with no mosquito netting.
We spoke to the girls last night [...]

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Ready, set, off to camp

It’s that time of year again.
My living room is currently the home to overstuffed dufflebags, sleeping bags and bulging backpacks.  The sky overhead is black and stormy and while I pack the back of the car, I am hopeful the storms hold off.
Being the wonderful mother that I am, I took Boo and 4 of [...]

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Ten Things Tuesd, er… Wednesday

Tuesday got away from me.  It seems to be Wednesday…
1. My sister’s daughter will become Bat Mitzvah this coming weekend, which means my sister is mere days away from hosting a potentially insane gathering. She’s holding up fairly well (she’s got the twitching under control, but I’m a little concerned about the maniacal giggling), but [...]

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Of Hospital Tents, Molton Lip Balm and Effusive Teachers

Yesterday was the much-anticipated living history day at the middle school, for which we were provided (undoubtedly with a smirk) weather straight of out what I am told it was like at the battle of Gettysburg: 92 degrees under blazing sun.
I have known this bunch of 8th graders for years and really love to take [...]

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Ten Things Tuesday

1. Boo came back from Orlando last evening at 8:15 and then had to sit and do her put-off math homework (geometry) until 11:20.  She stomped, smashed, yelled, cried and under no circumstances were Bob and I going to let her just blow off her homework to get much-needed rest. I did say I wished [...]

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