Friday, May 31, 2024 The potd is my new irises I got from my friend, Betsy, last year. Or the year before. If it was two years ago, the bunnies ate them last year, because nothing grew last spring. If it was last year, yay transplanting! I can see them out the front window every […]
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Thursday, May 30, 2024 Today was my last day of work for this school year. I showed the movie McFarland USA to four sections of 8th grade Spanish students. They watched the first part of the movie on Tuesday with a different sub. I heard from other teachers that they were HORRIBLE for her. They
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Wednesday, May 29, 2024 It was Benjamin and Sean’s anniversary on Sunday, and it is our anniversary on Friday, and today Benjin and Sean went off to be part of their friends’ wedding. Sean is a bridesmaid and Benjamin was the officiant. The wedding is over, so Benjin was the officiant; the reception is still
Monday, May 28, 2024 It is so sweet to be invited for dinner shortly before dinner and you can go! Sue and Peter were waiting for the air conditioning man to come today and got to cooking and then realized they cooked a lot and invited us for dinner. Since we were gone all weekend,
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Monday, May 27, 2024 We were only gone 56 hours, but it felt like a great vacation. We had fun driving time with Alexander, water park time with Alexander, and dinner time with Alexander, then a whole second vacation with Maren and family. The rain stopped today and we were able to get outside to
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Sunday, May 26, 2024 What a great day. Maren and Rob and the kids arrived about 11:30am to join us for a bit of water sliding and wave pooling. Every good thing is made better by having friends join you. We got $175 in Moose Money (local currency) for going to a timeshare thing. Alexander
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Saturday, May 25, 2024 We made a reservation for a two bedroom room in the Dells for a weekend family getaway, but Benjamin and Sean couldn’t come. We scooped Alexander up (so his car was at his house) and set off on our way about noon. Why so late? I don’t know. For some reason,
Friday, May 24, 2024 I subbed in fifth grade today. They followed their daily routine pretty well, which was good because they listened to absolutely nothing I said. All day long, it was “no, we don’t do that, or we don’t do it that way”. I’m not stupid; I gave up and let it ride.
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Thursday, May 23, 2024 We talked to a financial advisor recently. He asked what our plans were for retirement, in order to understand what kind of financial obligations we could expect. During a break at school today, I started planning. The stars mean really expensive. 🙂
Wednesday, May 22, 2024 Alexander came home from Illinois today. He was going to come and pick up Sophie and Colby, but we volunteered to take them to him. It’s a long drive and we thought it would be nicer for him. We didn’t think about wrangling the kitties into containers. They really don’t go