Retirement . . .

. . . has its perks.

Grami may have retired from teaching school (too bad for the educational system), but she was willing to come teach art camp this week (so lucky for us.) It was fantastic!

Relay Wrap Up

I shared some images from our team's Relay for Life experience a couple of weeks ago. But here more are images of the entire event. The wrap up meeting was last night, so I wanted to share the others now.

color

Avy's second art class was yesterday. We talked about how color communicates. There were two crafts. The first one ended up taking a lot longer than I planned because the correct glue was lost on the way down stairs (still don't know how) and we had to use superglue as an alternative. But the girls (and I) had a lot of fun designing rings.

In the second project we took 16 colors to describe a mood, place or thing. I love how it ended up. I love that everyone has different things that are significant to them (for example, Christmas Tree, banana split, summer swimming, Great Wolf Lodge, chocolate chip cookies, etc.) And even those interpretations will vary from person to person.

Summer good times continue.

NOT corporate America

5 minutes ago, this was the scene in my workplace:


H: "Avy, you must clean the paper and crayons off your floor."

A: "You are not like other moms!"

H: "I assure you, Avy, other moms ask their kids to clean up their rooms."

A: "No they don't! They are . . . . . . . NICE!"


Boy, there are times I think working for "the man" isn't so bad.

EVANGELINE MUDD AND THE GOLDEN-HAIRED APES OF THE IKKINASTI JUNGLE