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Back to school

This week was the kids’ first one back in school. The transition from a rather unscheduled summer to a highly scheduled school year has gone much more seamlessly than I anticipated. For the first time ever, I have mixed feelings about school being in session once again. Typically I hate it because I love having [...]

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Summer vacation: Day 1

Sometime before 7:30: Logan, as usual, woke up long before everyone else, despite his very late descent into dreamland. I knew this foreshadowed no good for later. 9:15 a.m.: The kids and I pulled out of the yard and headed to town. 10:00 a.m.: I left a nervous Andie and carefree boys at the Boys [...]

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School’s out…for the summer!

The kids are all officially done with school now, as of today. Here’s the rundown so far: Logan, who finished school on Friday, had his first day at the Boys & Girls Club today. While I was traumatized by the whole prospect of leaving him there alone, pretty much defenseless, he barely said “goodbye” to [...]

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This photo says it all

“What happened?” I asked Cody, after reading the above paper. “I just couldn’t hold it in any longer!” he told me.

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My shadow

I just found this among my many saved drafts from November 2008, when Logan was still in preschool. Now, a year and a half later, it’s a precious memory, rather than a complaint/reflection. The days Logan isn’t in school, he follows me pretty much everywhere, all day, and never stops talking. If I’m working in [...]

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is tomorrow. It seems like just a few weeks ago I was lamenting the fact that he was starting kindergarten and now he’s just about finished. It’s such an overused expression, but time really does go by way too fast. I remember being jealous of my friends whose kids were in school all day. I [...]

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I’m sitting here with 8-year-old Sydney Wambach, a second grader in Fargo, ND, and we’re going to do a little interview for today’s post. Me: What’s your favorite part of school? Sydney: Art, because I love to draw. Me: What are you looking forward to most this summer? Sydney: Camping at Storybook Land. Me: Do [...]

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Lucky Cody

As I went through Cody’s papers after school yesterday, my heart melted upon seeing this: (In case you can’t read it, here’s the translation:) Lucky Cody I think I’m lucky because I have a new baby cousin. I have a good mother. “Oh, Cody, that’s so sweet!” I said, giving him a hug. “That really [...]

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The owl

Logan drew this at school:

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My post from last February about homework in kindergarten has attracted such a large number of readers, I decided to revisit the subject. This year I have another kindergartner and the homework that started to trickle in at the beginning of the year has been gaining speed by the week. Last week, when I went [...]

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