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Back from Vacation...
Sep. 7th, 2010 12:02 pmDid you miss me?
The family and I were in LaCrosse, WI, visiting my folks. It was a bittersweet trip this time because my great aunt Clara has been moved to a nursing home after two strokes (at least). Nursing homes are depressing, even really nice ones like the place Clara is. Then, I've come back to a pile of e-mail (most of it junk), and a rainy, dreary day.
The only cool thing that's happened (so far), is that today is Mason's first day back at school. He's now a second grader, who, incidently, had the poor judgement to spend the summer growing out of all but one pair of black slacks. We knew he was probably growing -- they do, these kids, like weeds. But we were secretly hoping that the weather would be nice enough to send him off to school in shorts until we could go shopping on the weekend. We'll have to go tonight, alas.
Mason's school loops, so he should have had the same teacher. But, she had a baby over the summer, so Mason has a new teacher, who we met at the open house last Thursday. She's very nice. Keeps a tidy room (but for how long, one wonders.) We got the sense this morning, however, that she'd never had a first day of school as a subsitute... she seemed a bit overwhelmed by all the photographs and heilocoptering that happens on the very first day back. Ah well. I'm sure Mason will tell her all about any routines she does differently from Ms. H., the previous teacher.
I'm off to go work out. First time in about four months. Wish me well.
The family and I were in LaCrosse, WI, visiting my folks. It was a bittersweet trip this time because my great aunt Clara has been moved to a nursing home after two strokes (at least). Nursing homes are depressing, even really nice ones like the place Clara is. Then, I've come back to a pile of e-mail (most of it junk), and a rainy, dreary day.
The only cool thing that's happened (so far), is that today is Mason's first day back at school. He's now a second grader, who, incidently, had the poor judgement to spend the summer growing out of all but one pair of black slacks. We knew he was probably growing -- they do, these kids, like weeds. But we were secretly hoping that the weather would be nice enough to send him off to school in shorts until we could go shopping on the weekend. We'll have to go tonight, alas.
Mason's school loops, so he should have had the same teacher. But, she had a baby over the summer, so Mason has a new teacher, who we met at the open house last Thursday. She's very nice. Keeps a tidy room (but for how long, one wonders.) We got the sense this morning, however, that she'd never had a first day of school as a subsitute... she seemed a bit overwhelmed by all the photographs and heilocoptering that happens on the very first day back. Ah well. I'm sure Mason will tell her all about any routines she does differently from Ms. H., the previous teacher.
I'm off to go work out. First time in about four months. Wish me well.
