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A Couple of Stories (OA Bloggers Roundtable #4)

Published on July 25, 2009 By spyderkl

This post is #4 of the Open Adoption Bloggers Roundtable series, started by Heather at her blog. If you’re interested, here are Roundtables 1, 2, and 3. Our writing prompt for this Roundtable was sharing a small moment made possible by our open-ish adoption. It’s something I’ve written about before, but I’d say this counts. [...]

Speed Gift Knitting

Published on June 5, 2009 By spyderkl

As you can see (or not), I decided to forgo the trip to Fairmount in favor of…well, taking care of something that will lead me to this post. As I’ve mentioned several times this week, one of us has her last day of 1st grade today. This has meant…teacher gifts. Last year was pretty easy [...]

Friday Random 10: Last Day of School edition

Published on June 5, 2009 By spyderkl

Today is School Girl’s last day of 1st grade. She’s not been taking it too well, so Evil Dad and I are both picking her up from school and doing something special afterwards. Bring Me to Life – Evanescence Sweet Sweet Baby (I’m Falling) – Lone Justice (Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay – [...]

The Last Week

Published on June 2, 2009 By spyderkl

We’re ramping up for School Girl’s last week of school here at Chez Evil. So far, it’s been a bit more eventful than last year: Yesterday, her best bud was away (expected, and she won’t be back until at least tomorrow), she had to head to the nurse’s office because of an “earache” (actually, the [...]

Field Day

Published on May 29, 2009 By spyderkl

Yesterday School Girl’s school had Field Day for the 1st and 2nd graders. I went over to cheer her on, along with cheering on her friends. I have to admit, Field Day has always been a bit of a mystery to me. Our school never had anything like that when I was growing up – [...]