This is a little late going up, but I should mention that Nick was able to attend the Microsoft Build 2017, May 10-12.  He has been wanting to go ever since he entered the workforce!  I was excited for him.  However, as the week of Build approached, I also found myself working to manage a […]

I’m currently reading The Montessori Method, and I am hooked by the first few chapters.  Maria Montessori was certainly ahead of her time in early childhood education.  Did you know that the amount of learning that takes place in the first two years of life is estimated to be the equivalent amount of work that […]

I will not lie.  Today was hard.  Colin’s school was out because of Labor Day weekend, so I got to be a single parent of two for a day.  Yikes!  Besides the fact that this is hard anyway, today was my first time to attempt it for so long.  Originally, we were going to hang […]

In the days leading up to and right after Lydia’s birth, while we were mostly occupied with other things, my dear sister Joan and her family were here for a visit!  Before Lydia’s birth, we were able to do a few dinners with family and walk over to the nearby park one evening.  Then, the […]