At the beach, summer brings flowering yuccas, hours upon hours spent in construction, conversations held between waves, and spills that mothers capture forever. Also see Full-on Summer: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.
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Full-on Summer: Part Two
My younger son is a great one for creativity. He can conjure up the craziest ideas out of seemingly nothing. Summer then, with all of its glorious release from structured activities, provides any number of outlets for him. Allow me to share a few recent examples. This is the Call Me Flag Boy Game. In […]
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Full-on Summer: Part One
In celebration of the first day of summer coming this Friday, I’m beginning a series of posts on our summer festivities/observations/stuff of late. I anticipate no particular rhyme or reason to this series. It may or may not make much sense. So let’s talk about yesterday. Yesterday, for example, included lots of wave action. As […]
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Out of the Mouths of Kindergartners
Among the graduating kindergarten clan at the small people’s school, there’s a fierce rumor going around about first grade and how the first grade teachers up the discipline game a little. One day after school, my daughter came home brimming with information meticulously gleaned during recess that day. “Mommy, if you are naughty and get […]
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Things I Love About Island Living: #12
I love the fact that you never know who you’ll find shopping at the nearby Walmart. Never once, during my extensive shopping trips in Chicago (and LCB notes that they were extensive), did I shop alongside an egret. Or, as Baby-girl calls it, a duck. (My apologies to those of you expecting a Things I […]
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Stuck in Q&A Mode
In the last two weeks, I’ve written my end-of-the-year exams, my exam study guides, my last tests of the year, and my summer reading projects for the grades I’m teaching next year. (I’ll have more later on the uncharted waters my sails are set toward for the 2013/2014 school year.) So forgive me, but since […]