…Now with Curie and Elia
We’ve been telling stories of teachers that have impacted our lives at work for Teacher Appreciation Week. We wrote stories of appreciation and I told of how Mr. Baron, Mr. Antenore, and Mr. Mamer, as a triumvirate molded us to be socially responsible global citizens (and probably kept us out of real trouble since we were rebelling responsibly), and how Ms. Shepard, Ms. Teverbaugh, and Ms. Kenny (from Sierra Vista) led me to write short stories. But the story that PDK International chose to publish on our May 7th, PDK Voices from the Field segment (http://pdkintl.org/voices/ or see below) was about Mr. Patchell who taught me that I was my own person and not someone in the shadows of my sister (and brother, even though he is younger). Please take a read and thank a teacher that made a difference in YOUR life. #thankateacher#teacherappreciationweek #voicesofpdk #makingadifference Continue reading “Teacher Appreciation Week”
Being behind all the time in blogging is evidence of how little brain space there is to do very much. Laundry is always behind, the house is not cleaned, and we work day-to-day to get the kids fed, homework done and the kids to sleep. We parent by screen time a lot just to keep the kids busy, but recently we have noticed, that if we ask the kids not to watch, after an initial whining, they will play and prefer to play. We have a lot of toys, and really could do with a purge of older and lesser toys, but Elia is of the age right now that it would break her heart to give them away. Continue reading “Elia March 2019”
