Yesterday was Tad’s last day of school (today is the district’s last day, but since Tad’s school has a Monday through Thursday week, his last day was yesterday), but Tad absolutely does not believe that. Since it was his last day of school, I took each of his teachers and his speech therapist something. The […]

During her last weeks of school, Ane brought home a science project that they had started in class. The idea was for it to be a kind of homemade Chia pet – except that they used regular grass seed and a little dirt in plastic Easter egg set-up. Once the grass was long enough, they […]

As a last-day-of-school gift, Ane’s teachers gave each child a disposable camera, with the instructions to take pictures of their summer so they could remember it always. Most of the kids blew through their cameras before they even left school that day. With great restraint and threats… mostly threats… I managed to get Ane out […]

We’ve come a long way in one year. Ane has really grown in these last nine months. She’s made some good friends. She gets along pretty well with her peers. She’s learning how to take a joke. I hate to say it, but she’s ready for kindergarten. I felt like crying on her last day […]