DELTA DELTA DELTA AND QUIZ BOWL
Hello from California. I have been out here this weekend seeing A and attended her presents ceremony today for TriDelt. It was really fun – I got to see the house, meet some of her sisters and see her be…
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March 2024
N’s Social Weekend
Last weekend, N had a lot of social plans. On Friday, there was a 5th/6th grade social. He seemed to have a pretty good time. All of the girls were, o course, wearing these tight little dresses, while the boys…
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February 2024
Hobart’s Birthday
Last week, on 2/22, we celebrated H’s birthday. We don’t actually know when his birthday is, but we celebrate it on the day we decided to adopt him, which was 2/22/22. We think he may be 5. He got lots…
Quiz Bowl
Ok so much to catch up on. Let’s talk about N’s performance at Quiz Bowl. He did really well! I’ll copy what his Quiz Bowl teacher sent to the school: As you all know, GDS hosted its first MS quizbowl…
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February 2024
Blog Back Online
I had ANOTHER issue with WordPress and wasn’t able to access the blog for about a week, which was super frustrating. I missed a lot of things that I wanted to post about. I am now in FL for Bookstore…
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February 2024
Baseball and Books
N is going to be doing a skills assessment before baseball season starts up again. It’s this Sunday night. Meanwhile, he hasn’t played baseball since early November. So, to get him back into shape, I took him to Baseball Zone…
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February 2024
Family Day
Today was a fun day. Jonathan, Sarah and Rachel came to DC for a visit, and we all had lunch with Grampy at Joe’s downtown. And Tequila came down on the plane too, so we had a nice visit with…
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February 2024
Visit To Princeton
We went to visit M at Princeton on Friday, which was really nice. We went up after school on Friday and got to Princeton just in time to meet M for dinner at a nice restaurant right off of campus.…
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February 2024
Valentine’s Day!
Today was Valentine’s Day. N is finally too old for exchanging cards at school, though he did bring a bag o’ Chupa Chups to school and ended up in a fairly robust trade of candy with other kids. I guess…
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February 2024
Meet Stanley
For those keeping track at home, N was better this morning and made it to school. Tomorrow is his favorite day – Tuesday – because 1) Geography Club meets (the club he started); and 2) there is no Spanish class.…