Category: 2022-2023 School Year
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20230302 Nine
Due to weekends, scheduled days off, and unplanned days off, the girls were home for nine days in a row. Nine days is a long time for the three of us to spend together. Luckily, we’ve had some practice over the past few years. We got snow, but not really enough to close school over. …
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20230225 Fixed
I received a response about an hour after sending the email about my displeasure with Dee Dee’s after school course, Future Scientists. In response to my complaint about the course (i.e., it hasn’t been happening) the program coordinator of the after school programs asked me to call her. Never, under any circumstances, ever put anything…
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20230217 Future Scientists
Last quarter, Dee Dee participated in a Musical Theater, after school program. It sounded fairly slapdash and flimsy by Dee Dee’s reports. But they seemed to be doing musical theater when they got together. She was in a performance at the end of the quarter, and it ended on a good note. The school offered…
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20230213 Tunnel of Love
The girls’ school does an annual Glow Run to raise money for the school. Every winter the school brings in an inflatable tunnel, sticks it in one end of the gym, and illuminates the tunnel, and bright colored posters taped to the walls with black lights. The kids get pledges for how many laps around…
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20230202 Ice
Walking to school in the -8 °F temperature on Monday morning made the long, relaxing weekend seem like the set up to the punchline of a cruel joke. At least it’s a funny joke. AND! It builds character. Kids who ride the bus have to stand at the bus stop in the cold and bus…
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20230127 Short Week
Audio went to a birthday party for one of her classmates on Sunday. Dee Dee felt bad that she didn’t have a party to go to. Sadly, she couldn’t have gone even if she had. She was pretty sick. The sound of her cough filled our house the whole weekend. While Audio went to the…
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20230121 Theater
On the morning of Dee Dee’s musical performance, she woke up with a cough. Audio woke up defiant. And I woke up confused about what day of the week it was. Dee Dee’s cough was very sporadic, but loud and chunky. Audio didn’t want to eat, use the bathroom, brush her teeth, agree that she…
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20230117 Play Date
Monday was Martin Luther King Day, so the girls didn’t have school. As was arranged the previous week, Audio had a play date with a classmate. We’d decided to run the morning like a regular day and my wife woke the girls up before she left for work. The biggest difference between this day and…
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20230114 Dogwit
It’s the second full week of January, and the girls had their first full week of school since the last week of November. And it seemed like a lot got packed into it. Because of the heavy snowfall, rapid temperature changes, and freezing rain, I spent a good portion of the first four days of…
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20230106 Snow
On Tuesday morning the girls went back to school. Dee Dee was excited to show off her new hair cut (first in four years) but Audio was a bit concerned about seeing the mean kids that she hasn’t had to think about for the past month. From what I understand, the “mean kids” don’t mess…
Grade School in the Time of COVID19 