Category: 2022-2023 School Year
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20221231 Gott Nytt År
The girls go back to school on January 3rd, 2023. Thanks to a random Friday off of school and then staying home the following week when they had COVID-19, that’ll be a total of 24 days off in a row for Dee Dee and Audio! Other than the three days my wife worked last week,…
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20221224 Break
We are all finally feeling pretty healthy for the first time since the school year started, just in time for winter break. Dee Dee, Audio, and I hung out on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and their mom had Thursday and Friday off. It snowed a fair amount on the first three days of the week,…
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20221217 Electronic
Email sent to the girls’ teachers on December 12, 2022- As of this morning, everyone in our family has tested positive for COVID-19. We called the attendance line and left a message that Dee Dee / Audio won’t be in today. We are curious if we would be able to get Dee Dee / Audio…
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20221210 Health
After twelve weeks of being sick, our family finally stopped coughing, sneezing, blowing, and wiping and felt good enough to go to a winter carnival on Sunday. Audio’s cough made an encore appearance on Monday, but by the middle of the week, all our colds had cleared up. For the first time in three months…
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20221202 Bottle Shoes
We’ve had a few weeks of winter to work things out and both girls now have snow pants at school and we’re still working on leaving a pair of shoes at school. But decisions on gloves/mittens, hats, etc., choices have mostly been made. Because it’s been cold and wet enough to wear boots to school,…
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20221122 Silence
Having my wife around to help get the girls up and running in the mornings has been very helpful. An earlier start allows us to do everything we need to get done in the morning and creates some wiggle room for the unexpecteds. And the girls like to see their mom in the mornings. This…
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20221118 Humbred Sturdent
Dee Dee has an after school Musical Theater class on Tuesdays. So, at the end of the school day, I just pick up Audio. On this Tuesday, there was a bake sale. There had been emails and notices about it for a while. Everything cost a dollar, so I brought two, two-dollar bills. When Audio…
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20221117 Flag Children
After spending the weekend making sure that hats, gloves, scarves, and jackets were all lined up for the girls to wear to school, we woke up Monday morning to a couple inches of snow. Audio, who had made it through a good portion of the night in her own bed, woke up in my bed…
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20221112 Sick
By the end of the first week of school, Dee Dee was sick. It took until the second week for Audio to get sick. Since then, our family has been going through tissues and cold medicines in a way that until now, I was not familiar with. As one person starts to show signs of…
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20221105 Budget Cut Book Club
Due to budget cuts, the girls’ school no longer has a librarian. Last year, a weekly visit to the library (which was called the Media Center) was worked into the weekly schedule like gym, art, and music classes. At the start of this year, I asked Dee Dee’s teacher if students would be going to…
Grade School in the Time of COVID19 