So it’s occurring to me while I’m working on a (hopefully) profound post about how I need to slow my life down, that I haven’t done a lot of casual blogging lately about what’s been keeping us so busy. May is marching on by with its cold snaps and thunderstorms and heartaches too big for words, but here’s a bit of what we’ve been doing.
Gus turned one. I didn’t even write about it. I wrote this the week before and the week of I was busy with this.
That’s the incredible Mrs. Gibson and her talented students and crew. Blessed that she allowed me back in the school to help with the annual spring musical. I almost missed teaching that week. But then I came home to this and remembered why I left.
We named our children like dwarves last week: Sleepy, Whiny, Sassy, and Screechy. Guess which one she is?
We’re digging the CSA that’s started up in the past few weeks. Now I just need a more expansive repertoire of what to do with collards and turnip greens.
Oh, here she is again. Joshua wants to know why we’re not marketing her so that at least one college education is paid for.
She likes to dress herself, can you tell? Tomorrow is her last day of preschool this year. Insane how fast it goes.
That’s my sweet friend Shanna giving Gus his first haircut. I almost cried and she told me I’d be fine. This from the woman who had to let someone else cut her baby boy’s hair because she didn’t think she could do it. Love you Shanna! Thanks for making sweet boy look good.
It’s been field day and field trips and general chaos around school these past couple weeks. Glad I get to hang with my big girls sometimes!
When I was teaching, we used to have faculty meetings and brainstorm how we could move some of the craziness out of May. Yes, please. Let’s figure out how to do that.
Lindsey P. Brackett 