Archive for October, 2009

Last Day of Teaching First Grade

Jean finished the first part of her student teaching today. She had a 7 week stint teaching first graders, which just wrapped up. The students threw her a little party and I know that she’s really sad to be going.
It was really cool watching her get excited about going off to school every [...]

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The Guinea Shepherd Appears Once More

I strolled home from work yesterday and I noticed there was a bit of a commotion right in front of the house.  Upon further review, I saw that our Guinea Pig Ginger was out of her cage and hiding in the bushes in front of our house.
This has happened a few times before, and it [...]

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

I just finished reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix with Brett, which is the 5th in the series of seven books.  Talk about time consuming; we started reading this series last October. We don’t read it every single night, but we get our reading in at least four or five nights of [...]

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Small Decisions That Shouldn’t Be Tough

Last night, Jake asked us if he was allowed to ride his bike to school this morning.  His classmates were planning to meet at McDonald’s to have breakfast at 7 am and then they were going to head to school by 7:40.
It’s only a 3 mile ride from the house to the school, so he [...]

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