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.…
Super Bowl Sunday
We just watched the Super Bowl – a very long night but an exciting game at the end. Poor N went upstairs before the game ended because he isn’t feeling well – had a fever today and threw up this…
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February 2024
Risk Showdown
Today, A said that she was “being an adult” and going through and deleting emails from her inbox. She was also unsubscribing from lots of companies that send her lots of email. She deleted thousands! She is very happy. No…
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February 2024
Maddie’s Presentation
Maddie did a presentation today to Grandma’s Salon group about her time in Taiwan and Kenya. She did a great job! There were some technical difficulties but she was very patient and composed. Grandma’s friends thought she was very impressive.…