Barbara Thompson

Saturday, May 17. 2025 The finish line keeps moving, but it isn’t rushing away as fast as it was. I can see it! We are definitely, sorta, probably wrapping it up tomorrow! Keith kept himself busy today, while I cleaned. I told him it is pretty sad how not clean our house was. Oh well. […]

Friday, May 16, 2025 Rob taught us that there is a dump near Woodbury. We have lived here for 32 years and had no idea. Wow. It is not very far from us and is waaay cheaper than asking to pay your garbage people extra to take something for you. They loaded up the huge

Thursday, May 15, 2025 We went to see the show & Juliet tonight. I knew it was an imagining of if Juliet had not died (spoilers!) at the end of Romeo and Juliet and what she would do with her life, but that is all I knew. Turns out it is a jukebox musical (Katy

Wednesday, May 14, 2025 After school I took a nap to get powered up to try to finish emptying the house. The new people are having the carpets cleaned Friday, so there was a real push to empty the basement. It has seemed really close to being empty for about ten days. There might be

Tuesday, May 13, 2025 We got a soda stream for Christmas. We ran out of bubbles more than a week ago. We have been without soda. We have been drinking flavored water, which is darned tasty, but it’s not Diet Mt. Dew. Anyway, the list of do-tos was quite lengthy today and it was hot

Monday, May 12, 2025 I lost an 8th grader today. To be honest, I have never even thought about losing an 8th grader before. I think about losing elementary kids every second I am in class with them. (I mean, think about it. I go into a class of 20-30 kids whom I have never

Sunday, May 11, 2025 Rob, who is buying our house in eight days, stopped by to return tables from the garage sale and ended up moving a TON of stuff. Son Liam was an equal awesome worker to start, but Rob did not wane in his enthusiasm or effort. We have empty rooms upstairs (except

Saturday, May 10, 2025 Keith had a recording session with After Hours Big Band this morning. I love when I completely sleep through his getting ready and leaving. I woke up at 8am and got right up (that never happens) and started working on emptying the craft closet and the book closet. I used A

Friday, May 9, 2025 It was 11:20 this morning when the phone rang in the 6th grade social studies room I was in. I answered. A pleasant voice that I didn’t recognize said, “Could you please send your attendance?” I know the attendance keeper at this school, so it was a sub. I spurted, “I’m

Thursday, May 8, 2025 I shared a classroom today and when lunchtime came, the other teacher told me that there was white smoke! I am not Catholic and really don’t have much interest in it, but it was exciting nonetheless. She was avidly watching the video of the front of St. Peter’s, waiting to see