These past few days have been incredibly busy. Our fifth graders have specials first thing in the morning and during that time my CT runs errands or goes home because she forgot something. While the children were gone, the phone rang nonstop. I was running Read More...

Things seem to be going well with our little kindergartener. We didn't see him today, nor did we hear something about him ... at least no one translated anything to us about him. I've been trying to learn Russian. The only phrase that sticks is "Good Read More...

What a few days it’s been! Last week we had Open House—it was an incredibly long day. We had a DIBLES “training” after school, which made the day longer. I didn’t really get anything out of it. To me, it seems that you don’t get much information from Read More...

I'm tired. Very tired. I've been with the kiddos for three days. Wednesday was the first day. We did many activities to get them chitchatting with each other again, getting to know what they all did during the summer, and whatnot. I was out of the room Read More...

I have those "first day of school" nerves. Other schools in the area started today and as I was driving to the school, I saw all the kiddos and the buses... it only intensified those nerves. I'm going to be completely lost--fifth grade is not a grade Read More...