Latest addiction

Dear Kiersten,
  Here is a POTD that shows my latest addiction.  It is kind of sort of making up for the ending of cherry season.

Enjoying a bowl right now,
Rachel

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An achievement

Dear Rachel,
Ellie would like me to tell you that she is now able to tie her shoes.

Seeing bunny ears,
Kiersten
 
P.S.  Yes, I can TOTALLY smell my elementary school…and my high school.  I can even remember what the countertop looked like in my first grade classroom, and I sure can’t say that about most of the places [...]

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School memories

Dear Kiersten,
On my other blog, I am going through the 12 years of schooling.  Thinking through my school years has conjured up all kinds of memories.  I have been thinking of phonics charts, seeing spot run, the giant cookies served every day in the lunchroom, mashed potatoes that if you stuck your fork in them [...]

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POTD

Dear Rachel,
Sometimes outtakes are the best pictures of the lot.

Love,
Kiersten

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Logic and Grammar

Dear Rachel,
Do you ever think about your children’s early forays into grammar and think that they are more logical than whoever it was that made up this language? Ellie and I were folding clothes this morning and she picked up something I dropped and handed it to be with a cheerful “here’s the clo you [...]

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Monkeys are great friends

Dear Rachel,
I thought Jack might appreciate seeing another monkey friend picture.  This is Andy’s monkey, known as “Monkley”.
If you look closely you can see stitches from one of Monkley’s many surgeries. If you look even closer, you can see Monkley’s friend Wicket (another of Andy’s friends) peeking around Monkley’s considerable bulk.  If you look even [...]

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I have failed

Dear Kiersten,
I have failed to raise a culturally relevant 4 yr old.  We passed a ride outside a grocery store today that was a car being driven by Big Bird.  Jack looks at big bird and says, “There’s Buster!!!”  I wanted to ask him if he was kidding.  I wonder what time Sesame Street comes [...]

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What does that mean?

Dear Kiersten,
   Maybe you all wear clean jammies at your house every night, but not here.  However, Emma likes to get new ones every night and store a treasure cove of jammies under her pillow.  Here is our conversation tonight:
 
E:  Mommy, will you button me? (as she comes out with yet another pair of jammies…a [...]

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4 POTD

Dear Kiersten,
   This is what we were doing the other day!
 

Dizzily,
Rachel

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Keeping count

Dear Kiersten,
Have you ever thought about counting the number of questions you get asked in one day?  I wonder if we can count that high?
Adding,
Rachel

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