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Halloween – the MAIN event. Concordia has conferences on Thursday and Friday for ES and MS students. Conferences equals no school. I scheduled our conferences for Thursday after lunch. Therefore, no school on Friday after the fun! Since Wednesday was a no school night, we had dinner and a movie. After the movie, […]
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Jennifer’s tennis friend, Nancy, puts on a big adult Halloween party each year. It is held at Bubba’s on the Cool Docks on the river on the Puxi side. Costume is required attire. Jennifer signed us up for the Gong show performance. Scott would be lead rapper to “Baby got Back” while Jennifer, I, […]
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Lili invited Eleri to come trick or treat at her compound, Vizcaya. Vizcaya always celebrates Halloween on the weekend. Eleri wasn’t sure what she was going to be for her first trick or treat of the year. She decided on a super spy. A dig through the Halloween bin – the left over costumes […]
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Halloween seemed to creep in too fast this year. After the International fair, Eleri and I went to Pines to see what our luck would be for pumpkins. We had NO luck so we purchased two very small, but orange pumpkins. The larger pumpkins were light orange and too flat for carving. We did […]
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The girls were well prepared for International Day this year as we shopped Justice over the summer. Most items we purchased after the 4th to get them on sale. I did purchase Eleri’s skirt at full price as it would have been gone after the 4th…it was too cute to pass. I have a […]
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Metro Madness is an 8th grade field trip to work on skills of team work and map reading. A quick explanation as to what our Metro Madness entails. The entire eighth grade class is split-up into approximately thirty-five groups of three students each. Each group of three has one parent volunteer that follows […]
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Emersyn’s writing assignment describing her Metro Madness. “Jonathan, Judy, once we get off the Metro and we get above ground…sprint. Just sprint like crazy to the Science and Technology Museum.†I say, calculating our game plan. Judy and Jonathan nod in agreement. We have ten minutes left, and we need one […]
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Eleri’s braids were done tight since she had 24 very small braids. Therefore, she was able to wear them over a week. When I took the braids out, she looked like Roxi! One word – Adorable! Average Rating: 4.5 out of 5 based on 216 user reviews. […]
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Today, the 4th graders were given their speeches. It was a free dress day to come to school looking professional. Eleri’s professional dress is a skirt given to her by Mimi and a hand-me down sweater from Emersyn. Her shoes were Emersyn’s shoes from Jenna’s wedding! She was […]
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We arrived home from Thailand on Saturday. On Sunday, the girls and I made a cake for Jim’s birthday. Jim and I decided we would celebrate his birthday tonight – on Sunday. Eleri wanted to celebrate on his birthday – on Monday. Monday nights are not a good day for a celebration. The girls […] |