When he leaves for work long before the sun rises, and when Saturdays and evenings mean time at school or algebra textbooks to study and tests to grade, I hope you realize how blessed you are to have a dedicated teache…

We're connected again!!! Our internet was down for a few days and I tell you, I felt kind of lost. I forget how I depend on it for everything from weather to recipes to shopping to research...until I don't have it. Bu…

Okay, I’m going from memory here, so I’m not sure where this will go. We worked at the mission the next day again. Steve was sick and I and a few of the others convinced him, none too easily, to go back to bed. The gir…

In about two weeks we'll be heading to NYC on senior trip. The fact doesn't seem to have registered, yet, (read: excitement level still only mild). Now, that The Big Surprise is out and over, I have more brain energy t…

Today Steve took his class to a local college for some diversion from the norm. They ate lunch, played tennis and, later, sand volley ball. I joined them after Zachary's nap which was at the very end, so I just sat and…