Last week, unaware of the rose-colored glasses attached to my face, I volunteered to travel with my eldest son’s class to Boone Hall Plantation in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. I thought this might be the last time I could attend a field trip with him before starting teaching in August, so I had this idealized […]
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Miscellaneous Holiday Highlights
Among other things, during the week of Christmas we continued our beach football games that we started over Thanksgiving. As an incentive for those who preferred not to be tackled while trying to enjoy their time on the beach (i.e. me), my younger son added a separate sign-up spot for cheerleading for any parties looking […]
Starting 2012
I hope everyone had a most excellent start to the New Year. Judging from my brief visits on Twitter and Facebook over the last 72 hours or so, it appears that many of you have in fact done exactly that. And what about the Island Family, you ask? Well. We did have a wonderful […]
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Disney World, Part III
We saved the last day for our tried and true park, Magic Kingdom. We were all excited about this day for two reasons. One, we had heard that the park would be decked out for Halloween, which it was. Two, Saturday was one of the days where Magic Kingdom stayed open until midnight. Nighttime is […]
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Disney World, Part II
On our last (and only) trip to Disney, we decided to wedge a more relaxed day of non-park activities in between the two park days. It went well the first time around, so we opted to repeat this format on this trip. Therefore, on Friday, we slept in and then went to the pool at […]
Disney World, Part I
First things first. Thanks for all of your well-wishes regarding my back. I’ve survived, and am almost back to normal. However, there was another reason why my back drama was at the forefront of my mind last week. We had tentatively planned a trip to Disney World from Wednesday night to Sunday. When we moved […]