school

At the end of the summer Dave surprised me with news that he thought he might go back to school to get a Masters degree in Global Management. It is a program through Thunderbird that he had done some research on and was getting kind of excited about. I’m sure…

I love new beginnings. And man alive, we sure have had a bunch of them around these parts lately! There have sure been a lot of first days of school this year! There was the first day of online school for the “little girls” (HERE), and the first day of…

Thanks for all the good missionary questions on the last post about our new missionary Grace. I answered them back in that comment section, but I think we’ll need to do another Q&A once she gets in the swing of all that jazz. I think we’ll be on a steep…

Goodness, gracious I have a lot to catch up on. We’ve been working on some good things around here, and I have so much to say. But for today I figured I better get my act together and at least document the first day of school… …online school that started…

The day before Fall Break it was “shadow-your-student” day. Which might be one of my favorite days with my kids. You get to be “in” their day for a day (ok, just a half day actually, but still…). This was my view most of the day: Which made me happy…

I personally think August first is a horrible day to start school.  But since I have no control over those dates (gosh dang it!), we went ahead and took that big day on. It was a WEIRD day for me I have to say.  Weird because these are the lone…

I have sent four children off to junior high school, one by one.    They planned out their first-day-of-school outfits.  They poured over the supply lists.  They packed up their backpacks overflowing with Kleenex and Clorox wipes after trips to Target and took off with their little packs of biking…

These three marched out the door yesterday with huge smiles stretched across their faces: They set off at three different times to three different schools, and left me behind wondering how in the world that summer of crazy whirlwinds of magical things flew by so dang quick. Yesterday was the…

We haven’t gotten to our nifty post-school-filing yet for most kids, but Claire was on-the-job even before school wrapped up. Each year we sit and sift through the mountains of work the kids drag home in their backpacks. Art projects and reports spilling out of well-worn folders from months of…

School went ahead and wrapped up in the desert nice and early (May 19th).  I’m mad about how early it gets out because that means we start way too early (August 3rd…ouch!) but that’s a post for another day.   Today I’m just talking about those last few days because…