Hello P&B&B&B&C&C readers!
I know it has been a long time. Over the course of 2025, I had a hard time posting because I was overwhelmed with the opening of the bookstore. And then, when I did post, WordPress stopped sending out emails. So none of you got notifications saying that there was a new post. If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it…??? I lost incentive to post because no one was reading it other than me. But at the same time, none of the great things happening to the kids were being recorded.
So one of my resolutions for 2026 is to post here again. And so that 2025 isn’t a totally lost year, I am going to spend a lot of the year picking random photos and memories from 2025 and sharing them so that they don’t go un-memorialized.
I will start with these photos:





These pics are from N’s chorus concert in December. The songs they sang: Carol of the Bells, Rosalie, Siyahamba and Jordan’s Angels. The 7th/8th grade chorus was by far the best of the performances.
The pics above are from the GDS account, and here are two of mine:


Nate’s chorus includes 30 8th grade boys and according to his chorus teacher, it’s hard to keep them under control. N is apparently one of the ones who is well-behaved (and notices when the teacher is frustrated).
Ok, it’s a post. Good start!!