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Today was Lombardi’s first day of their Halloween festivities. I took the kids there with Colleen (of course), Mark, Alex, Colleen’s sister Karen and her daughter Kelli and Colleen’s friend Marylou and her sons. We had a great time!
For opening day, they had free train rides. We road twice (which, on a...
So, Friday was Hawaiian day at the kids’ school and Megan wore this dress, the only Hawaiian thing she has.She told me that her teacher made her wear a jacket all day, even in class and when they were running laps, because she was wearing “spaghetti straps.” Someone back me up here. Those...
When I was at Toys R Us the other night, I found these bubble wands on clearance for $1.20. I bought all 5 that were left. They made for some cheap entertainment this afternoon at the park.
It took the little guys a while to figure out how to use the bubble wand. ...
Yeah, so it’s fundraiser time again. You can all thank me for not mentioning Megan and Nathan’s first one through school. It was far from fabulous. I let them each pick two things from the catalog for themselves just so we could say we participated. Well, let’s see….Megan’s Brownie troop is...
I was looking through old stuff the other night and came across oodles of these kinds of photos. I must have thought they were great. Every time a hand-tinted photograph comes up in a print competition, a judge will say, “Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.” Some of these are...
I love a good deal. Just got back from Toys R Us and have a lot crossed off the xmas list. They have buy 2, get the 3rd free on all kinds of things, including:
- all Dora stuff- Littlest Pet Shop- Lego sets- Color Wonder stuff- Spy gear- Thomas trains- All Leap Frog...
We had lunch at the Santa Paula Airport with Mark, Colleen, and Alex so we could watch the planes take off.
Love these next two. Hehe.
My little soccer dudes. Even with a wet field and the threat of rain, they played (and won) another game today.Here is my Nathan on a breakaway towards to goal.Here he is again, flashing a big grin to daddy after scoring his second goal of the game.
But my little Lo was the goalie...
Here’s the scoop on teaching….I have three years from the time I resigned (which is actually a year after I stopped teaching because I took a leave of absence first – pretty smart, huh?) to return to the district and not lose my spot on the pay scale. So….if I am eventually going to...
From the kids’ “student handbook”:
Rules for the swings:Students may “count” on each other. Counting begins when the swinger is higher than the head of the counter. To keep the pace of the counting fair, students will use the “banana system: ie, “1 banana, ” “2 banana,” “3 banana,” etc. The swinger must stop after 25...
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