This year, Spring Break and Easter were all tied up together. We were in Destin and planned on grilling and chilling on our own. It turned out that Lindsay and Wes were home and invited us over there for Easter dinner with them, my step-mom and some friends. SCORE! Not only have I never spent...
I’m not a big fan of the way they have changed Field Day. No longer are parents allowed to come down and be a part of it, instead we are stuck up in the bleachers watching. And if you go down there to check your kid out after it’s over, but still a little too...
Last month the 3rd graders went to a farm in the boonies on a charter bus, and I got to go with them. The 3rd grade doesn’t have too much luck with field trips, but this one went pretty well. I did question the logic of allowing about 100 kids to play for an hour...
Azaleas are kind of a rip off. For about 355 days of the year, they are this not even mildly attractive bush. We get about 10 days of blooming, then it’s over. 3 or 4 of those days are spent with these wilty half-blooms committing suicide and joining their trampled looking friends all smashed and...
Jackson is on an Accelerated Reader roll! He made it to 375 points this week and they gave him a lobster. A few days later he was up to 400 and got a caterpillar. As of this moment, he’s got the most in the school. How awesome is that? That boy is a reading fool....