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Graduation Day

Published on June 10, 2008 By spyderkl

Today was our official last day of school. It was also School Girl’s kindergarten graduation. I’m not exaggerating when I say it was a long, long morning. Long lines to get into the building – I think I’ll leave that one alone, except to say that sometimes people here get continually caught by surprise. Long [...]

Well

Published on June 9, 2008 By spyderkl

Well. I wish we were well. The latest round of colds has found School Girl with more than a cold. We finally went to the doctor this morning, as her cough hasn’t been getting any better. No fever, but the ped thinks it’s a respiratory infection. She said she didn’t think it was pneumonia, as [...]

Second Verse, Same as the First

Published on May 19, 2008 By spyderkl

For the second time so far, I’ve had to walk away from School Girl before she went into school. This time I didn’t have much of a choice: we were waiting on a plumber to fix our sump pump (long story – our house has groundwater problems and a sump pump in the basement, which [...]

Going Green

Published on April 24, 2008 By spyderkl

School Girl’s kindergarten teacher has made a big deal about Earth Day this week. Which is just fine with us. School Girl has embraced the idea of Earth Week with an incredible evangelistic zeal. Which is, as it turns out, pretty damn fine with us as well… On Monday, she brought home an “Earth Day [...]

Protected: Sometimes like her, sometimes like me…

Published on April 22, 2008 By spyderkl

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