Category: 2023-2024 School Year
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20241007 The Day Off
The girls and I were looking at the school calendar this morning. We were talking about how they had a four-day week last week for Rosh Hashana. It would have been nice if it was a Friday or Monday off, but the Jewish New Year fell on a Thursday. Being home for one day in…
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20240930 Settled in
We’re at the end of the first month of school. The girls seem to have gotten a good grip on the year. Dee Dee goes to the cafeteria most mornings for a second breakfast and sometimes Audio goes with her. If Audio sees someone she knows or just doesn’t want to stand by me in…
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20240918 Running Out of Summers
Around the middle of August, I started to try to make my last couple weeks of summer with the girls special. I took them to bigger playgrounds, we went to restaurants, and I did my best to be as patient with them as possible. One way or another, our summers will be different from now…
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20240822 Forgot to Finish
The girls were excited about the special days (Hat Day, Pajama Day, etc.) that made up the last two weeks of the school year. Anything out of the ordinary is exciting after 160 “regular” school days. But, with only two weeks left of the school year, in the beginning of June, it seems like there’s…
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20240530 Well
We’re down to 11 days of school. This school year seems to have gone by faster than others. Maybe it’s because we’ve been doing a similar routine for a couple years, or because the girls are older and they understand life in general better, or because I’ve had other things occupying my mind, or a…
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20140429 34
We can see the end of the school year. I’ve started telling the girls how many days they have left until summer break. As of this morning, they have 34 days until they are done. Mornings have been pretty good this year, for the most part. It seems like the past couple weeks, following spring…
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20240417 New Strings
Earlier in the school year, I visited Audio’s classroom to play some songs for the Kindergartners. It went well and Audio was happy that I’d done it. Her teacher was out, sick that day. So, the school principal was her substitute. She allowed me to play four songs. When we had Audio’s parent teacher conference…
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20240327 I Guess So
After wrapping up Dee Dee’s first play, we celebrated by going out for ice cream with some of the cast and their families. The parents of one of the girls who was in the play and is also in Dee Dee’s class asked if we’d “heard about the note.” We hadn’t, so they explained, sort…
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20240314 Swim Stage
The past month has been the busiest yet for our family. Thinking back over the activities the girls did, it doesn’t seem that bad, and it wasn’t. It’s just that things felt a little tight for my liking. I prefer to have a little wiggle room in my schedule. We didn’t do a good job…
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20240209 Didn’t Already
We had parent teacher conferences this week. We always try to set up the girls’ conferences back-to-back so there isn’t a lot of coming and going and waiting around. This time around we didn’t get around to signing up for the meetings right away, but we were still able to get the conferences set up,…
Grade School in the Time of COVID19 