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Rachel is ready for her first day of school as a fourth grader.
Rachel was a giant help (again) today at cleaning the house. She loves to mop the kitchen and clean the bathroom sinks. I’m working through appropriate rewards for her because this is above and beyond the expected workload for a nine year old. I don’t want to go the extra allowance route because allowance isn’t [...]
We live in a household with three other children. The converstaion went something like this Saturday night: “Rachel, go tell Aiden to close the bathroom door and I’ll be forever indebted.” Rachel runs upstairs and shouts into the bathroom, “Aiden! Close the door or you’ll be forever dead.”
I sent Rachel off to camp yesterday. She’ll be gone almost four weeks in north Georgia. Today I received a phone call from her unit counselor: Rachel left her toiletry kit at home. Sure enough, I found it sitting on her desk, just where she described to counselors that she’d left it. I’ll mail the [...]
This message just in from Rachel’s father in the metro-DC area: Rachel has been talking up Drama Camp a lot. She really likes the idea. Just so you know what Rachel is up to this week: No camp (school is still in session up here), so she’s mostly hanging out, watching TV, reading, playing with [...]
This is Dogwood Festival weekend in Atlanta so we went to Piedmont Park to browse art and watch the frisbee dogs compete. We went with my girlfriend and her family. My favorite art was by Win Blazier, who works with glass. Here’s one of his works: Rachel enjoyed watching the dogs in a frisbee-catching competition.
Rachel and I are visiting Florida for spring break this week. Yesterday, we went to the beach to enjoy the sand, sun and surf. We spotted a small shark in the shallow water, not more than 50 yards from where we were! The shark was about three feet long. Several people on the beach spotted [...]
Math: Rachel reports they’re studying measurement. They’re estimating the volume of common objects, heights and widths. Looks like they’re learning English units (gallons, pints, cups). Spelling: afraid explain payment sleigh straight height favorite radio relation Science: They’re talking about minerals. Because they just started today, Rachel can’t tell me much right now. Last week was [...]
