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| Theo climbing a tree on the last day of school. |
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| The ninth graders came in to do a couple dissection demonstrations. |
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| Matching during carline and looking ready for summer. |
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| Summer officially starts with crawfish. |
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| Beautiful Dr. Pepper red crawfish. |
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| Matthew being a menace. |
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| I caught a rare moment of these two just chatting after school while brushing out the American Girl Dolls' hair. |
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| We found frog eggs in the creek at school. |
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| End of Year Awards Ceremony. Theo got A Honor Roll for the year. |
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| We celebrated afterwards with ice cream. |
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| The whole school had the same idea so V ran into one of her best friends. |
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| These are the glorious days of dinner outside in the soft green light -even though your mom makes you eat borscht. |
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| We ended up having an unexpected breakfast visitor when a Blackburnian Warbler hit our window. |
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| V sat outside with him until he recovered and flew away. |
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| V is learning the art of practical effects wound make up. It all started with a concerned email home from her teacher when she was drawing bruises on her arms with a highlighter. |
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| At the End of Year Scouts activity Matt caught the turtle that was eating all the hot dogs off the fishing lines. Theo named it "The Glizzard." |
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| Cinco de Mayo was Salem's 6th birthday. Happy birthday to the best of cats. |
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| American girl re-released their classic dolls for their 40th anniversary. I no longer have my original Kirsten so I treated myself to the new one. The first thing V did was unbraid the perfect braids. Ugh. I have to keep reminding myself: Dolls are to be played with... |
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| V had her 13th birthday party at the asian food court at the mall. Everone got some cash to go buy themselves dinner or treats. They had a lot of fun using real money and weighing the cost of things. Classic skills. |
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| It has been such a garden week. With this beautiful bouquet of chard, I made a chard potato gratin to go with our steak for Mother's Day. |
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| Just thinning a little bit of kale so the melon sprouts can see some daylight. |
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| Turnips which became a teacher appreciation gift - probably the weirdest one... |
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| On Mother's Day morning, Matt went to a local bagel shop to try their iimitd edition "Alliyum" bagel. Onion bagel with ramp cream cheese and crispy fried onions. It was pretty good and was worth the fact that we all had pretty awful breath for the rest of the morning. |
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| As a gift to me for Mother's Day, V begged to watch endless episodes of Gilmore Girls. |
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| Italian almond cake for dessert. |
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| The girl is officially a teenager. |
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| Veronica turned 13 on Monday. Matt, Theo, and I ate lunch with her in the cafeteria and then we all went out to sushi for dinner. |
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| Theo had his last baseball game of the season. |
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| Veronica asked for pony beads for her birthday and has been making complex beaded bracelets. |
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| Then I taught her the ways of the 90s and 00s middle schoolers and she's been making lizards and other creatures non stop. |
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| It's not a party unless someone is shirtless on the roof and then vomiting in the street. Wait, both of those were my kid. Sorry. |
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| The garden is looking extra lush this year. |
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| It is such a pleasure every time I go outside. |
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| Our driveway was redone this week by the crew redoing our street. This is the before. |
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| After. |
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| Matt and the brothers-in-law all went on a trip to Turner Falls for the weekend. |
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| Matt and I had a date night at Delhi 6. They opened a new location and it is just stunning. My class gave me a birthday gift card, which was such a treat. |
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| While our street is being repaved, we booked the crew to redo our driveway as well. |
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| Theo won a bowl of succulents in the school silent auction. Everyone thought they were for me. No, they are for my plant lady son. |
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| V's last weekend of being 12. She's about to be a glorious teen. She keeps reminding me I only have 5 years left of her living at home. |
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| V woked tech crew for the school play this year. She had a fun time learning the backstage skills but she said she prefers to be on the stage. |
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| We got ice cream to celebrate Theo making honor roll! |
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| 4th grade had a spelling bee. The kids went wild for the final three. I brought the winner a box of candy of their choice. Everyone always wants Nerds gummy clusters. |
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| Beautiful spring weather has made recess so nice lately. |
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| V and I started watching Gilmore Girls. She’s definitely hooked. |
