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Into Summer

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First, the family quotes of the last two weeks 5/25/20 (During a morning walk, we passed a guy only wearing shorts, and fairly short ones.) Gideon: What's that guy with no pajamas? 5/31/20 Gideon (who had been a pain all day) climbs up on the couch to cuddle with me. Beth: Do you love Mommy? (Nods head) Beth: Mommy loves Gideon (even when you're aggravating)... (Seth reaches over and touches Gideon's shoulder.) Seth: Seth loves Gideon Gideon: No! Mommy loves Gideon. Gideon: Let's swordfight! Seth: We can't swordfight; it's Sunday. [We have had swordfighting on Sunday. Perhaps Seth just doesn't want to swordfight today or is feeling calm today. Gideon just doesn't agree, and sees this as another reason not to like Sunday.] Gideon: No! Sunday is all gone! I bit Sunday; I ate Sunday! 6/2/20 The dinner plan was tacos, which Kaitlyn and Gideon do not like. I had been busy that day, and considered using some gift cards we had to order out. Rob and I were dis...

Counting down the days until Christmas Break!

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From November 21st until Now... Natalie Concert - She plays viola. This is her 3rd year. (Can you find her? She's the smiling red head in the front row. She's close to the right half of the picture.) The violist to her right and the first violin in the long flowy shirt are both friends from church. We had to drive separately to get there for various scheduling reasons, so Rob drove us from the exit (where he had parked) WAY over to the parking lot in front of the stadium (where Alee, Gideon, and I had parked). The kids thought it was very funny that we all piled in the pick up to drive through the parking lots. (One asked if we could drive all the way home like that.) After Seth's IGP (individual graduation plan meeting, yearly with parents and guidance counselor),  I rushed to Alee's school for a STEM activity. I made it at the very end. They were making some 3-mast ship. Caravel...theirs were not shaped like the Spanish ships from the 16th century, bu...