Although happy about my achievement, the deliriousness of this picture is caused more by the wind and the attempt at a “jumping picture” rather than just the joy of the milestone. Just clarifying. Sadly, this is about the best picture we got, ha ha. Well, it’s happened—it might be about six or seven months later …
I wish I could tell you that these photos were from today—that after a super long day at the school (made even longer by the beyond-depressing end-of-test results that started coming in for my students), we struck out into the sunshine for some quality family time that involved a picnic of gourmet cheese and fruit …
So. It’s Monday. Hmph. I have loads of stuff I SHOULD be doing today (especially since, because my students are end-of-level testing this week, I have some extra time), but I’m finding it difficult to make myself work (aka, grade my students’ book projects and start prepping for my departure from the teaching profession by …
One of my new year’s “challenges” was to sign up for another half marathon, a distance I haven’t run for two years (almost to the day). After successfully running 4 – 5 mile distances (without stopping to walk) for several weeks now, I figured it was time to bite the bullet and just sign up …
The last part of the school year is a rough time, full of end-of-level testing, massive amounts of grading, and a general sense of “can this be over already?” from students and teachers alike. I devoted yet another whole weekend to grading just barely, and I stayed up until past eleven last night grading, too …
Photo courtesy of my sis My baby Raven, Today, you are one. WOW. What a year it has been! From the moment you first drew breath, you have seemingly been determined to learn as much as you can every day and to try to hit as many milestones as you can before each new month …
Remember how I said that one month, I was actually going to stick with just 10 photos? News Flash: This is not that month. (I mean, look at that face—how could I resist?) But here are the “official 10,” in no particular order: 1 // Everything is about walking these days. EVERYTHING. Matt and I …
Confession: I have spent the majority of my spring break cleaning the apartment and trying to prevent Raven from pulling all our DVDs off the shelf about every other minute. However, before I went into full-on spring cleaning mode, I made sure we did a little adventure-ing last weekend (while I still had plenty of …
