with the blog design. Can anyone help me with getting the blue flax photo in the header to fill the space???
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Friday, May 06, 2011
Non-electronic
On our flight home from Denver we scored another automatic upgrade to first class. Toward the end of the flight, Coty stood up to stretch. He looked around the cabin and then sat down to tell me that I was the only one in the cabin NOT using some sort of electronic device - laptop, e-reader, smart phone, mp3 player, you name it. Everybody else was plugged in.
I was connected to a different type of cord. Lllama silk yarn, that is, which will someday be this sweater. One of the nice things about spending time with Kandyce is that she showed me all kinds of great patterns and gave me lots of ideas. This is one of them.
Self-timer
My husband loves a challenge. Like self-timer pictures on a mountainside, jumping across rocks to get into the picture.
Thing is... you don't always know when that shutter is going to click so you aren't ready...
or you don't make it back it time.
But if you don't give up, you get your picture!
Test time
I got home just in time for ...
test time.
Yep. It's that season.
I'm up late tonight finishing writing the final exam for my field biology students.
My students take it over the next week.
Then I grade it.
Then I'm done!
Tuesday, Joel took a precalculus exam.
Tomorrow, he takes his first AP exam of the season.
The next day, he takes the SAT.
The next Wednesday, he takes another AP exam.
Then he has one more final - for chemistry.
Then he's done!
He told me the other day that he is looking forward to reading books this summer, just for fun. That boy has studied hard this year and he is really ready to sit on the porch swing with a novel and read just because he wants to.
I'm glad that he has had some challenging classes this year, that he has worked his way through a lot of material, taking copious notes along the way, that he has studied and drilled and taken practice exams, that he is a diligent student.
I'm even happier that he is a reader. When the days of classes and test taking are over, a reader's world is boundless. When school is done, a reader goes right on learning... on a porch swing with a cold glass of lemonade.
test time.
Yep. It's that season.
I'm up late tonight finishing writing the final exam for my field biology students.
My students take it over the next week.
Then I grade it.
Then I'm done!
Tuesday, Joel took a precalculus exam.
Tomorrow, he takes his first AP exam of the season.
The next day, he takes the SAT.
The next Wednesday, he takes another AP exam.
Then he has one more final - for chemistry.
Then he's done!
He told me the other day that he is looking forward to reading books this summer, just for fun. That boy has studied hard this year and he is really ready to sit on the porch swing with a novel and read just because he wants to.
I'm glad that he has had some challenging classes this year, that he has worked his way through a lot of material, taking copious notes along the way, that he has studied and drilled and taken practice exams, that he is a diligent student.
I'm even happier that he is a reader. When the days of classes and test taking are over, a reader's world is boundless. When school is done, a reader goes right on learning... on a porch swing with a cold glass of lemonade.
Tuesday, May 03, 2011
Eighteenth Monday
Mostly thankful today...
for our oldest son, Jonathan and his wife, Kandyce and for the opportunity to visit them here in Denver;
for meeting their Iraqi family and spending an afternoon in the beautiful Denver Botanic Garden with them;
for Jonathan and Kandyce's compassionate, giving hearts,
for their good friends,
their church,
their work,
their home;
for shopping (Fancy Tiger!), yoga class, knitting, and talking sewing with Kandyce,
for cooking and cleaning up together,
for hiking and seeing strikingly beautiful places,
for great conversations,
laughing over old stories,
and seeing a child I butted heads with so often in his younger years grown into such a fine young man married to an amazing woman I dearly love.
for our oldest son, Jonathan and his wife, Kandyce and for the opportunity to visit them here in Denver;
for meeting their Iraqi family and spending an afternoon in the beautiful Denver Botanic Garden with them;
for Jonathan and Kandyce's compassionate, giving hearts,
for their good friends,
their church,
their work,
their home;
for shopping (Fancy Tiger!), yoga class, knitting, and talking sewing with Kandyce,
for cooking and cleaning up together,
for hiking and seeing strikingly beautiful places,
for great conversations,
laughing over old stories,
and seeing a child I butted heads with so often in his younger years grown into such a fine young man married to an amazing woman I dearly love.
hiking with J and K in the Flatirons today
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