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I should have posted this one earlier in the week, but I didn't think of it until my husband posted a link to it on his Facebook page. It's an article written by a Washington Post writer who is the mother of a child at my son's elementary school. It's about our school's Modified Calendar, sometimes called a "year-round" school schedule.

Technically ( Read more... )

I went on a date with my husband this weekend. This is worthy of notice because we seldom go anywhere with just the two of us, sans six-year-old. Sunday night, my mother babysat while we took a candlelight tour of Mount Vernon, arranged by Bob's University of Michigan Alumni Association. Mount Vernon offers these tours by special reservation around ( Read more... )

With my son's school on half-days this week in honor of the end of the school year (tomorrow is the last day) and another power outage, I haven't been able to post much lately. But I'm still here! I'm beginning to hear thunder now, so I have to get off soon before the electricity goes out again.

First, though, I wanted to share some news. I recently ( Read more... )