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A Wonderful First Week of Summer
When I woke up on Monday morning, I cannot tell you the emazing relief and peace that I felt knowing that I had the summer to recharge and rejuvenate. Teaching was a gift, but so is this break, and I… Continue reading
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School’s Out & Goodbye May!
How can one month feel so very long, and then also disappear??? I know so many people have taken to calling the month of May, “Maycember,” because it battles with December for the amount of activities and other things happening… Continue reading
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Finishing 7th Grade with Flair
What happened to our baby boy?? He is growing like a weed, doing all the exciting things, and just finishing this year of school with flair. It is hard to believe that he had his last day of 7th grade,… Continue reading
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Miscellaneous May Adventures
May is so busy. All of the school things for me, activities for Arthur, anniversaries, birthdays, Mother’s Day, concerts, and treatments and doctor’s appointments. It is a tornado of things. So many of them are really good things, however, like… Continue reading
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School in the Midst of May
With all of our big testing finished for the school year, I had the students working on various projects, as well as having a mad dash to finish the novel I was reading with each of my classes. I also… Continue reading
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Celebrating Our Lily
How does life fly by as fast as it does? Wasn’t it just 2003 and this precious baby girl was being placed in my arms?? Didn’t she just make me a mother? Or wasn’t she just the spunky five year… Continue reading
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Starting Out the Month of May
May is a crazy month – first, you have all the holidays – Mother’s Day, Lily’s birthday, and Kevin’s and my wedding anniversary. Then add in all the school things that I have to take care of as a teacher.… Continue reading
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Celebrating 25 Amazing & Adventurous Years
Twenty five years! What an amazing blessing and gift it has been to be married to Kevin this past quarter of a century, and I cannot even express how grateful I have to have him as my partner for eternity.… Continue reading
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How I’m Doing . . .
I just finished up my 3rd round of insusions with my new chemotherapy, Enhertu. (The pill version was so new, that insurance would only approve the ifusion version. It’s fine. The symptoms are very similar to my old chemo treatments,… Continue reading
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Finishing Up the Month
April has been so busy!! Besides all the state testing and preparation for it, there were all sorts of other things going on at school. One of them for my students was a special “Famous Texan” project. It was so… Continue reading
