Yesterday, I arrived in Caroline’s 4th grade class armed with a book of scrapbook paper, construction paper, yarn, and heart stickers. For the next hour and a half I helped the students make hanging hearts. Then I climbed up on the desks and pushed the yarn into the ceiling tiles to hang the hearts. (Luckily…
Category Archives: Girls
Why Spelling Is Important
I support inventive spelling in the younger grades. But Katie’s inventive spelling for pennies put a whole new spin on her math worksheet story problem she brought home yesterday. I’m pretty sure she won’t misspell pennies again! What was your laugh of the week?
Malibu in October – WW
We went to Los Angeles this past weekend. When we drove across the state line into California, Katie said, yay! We’re in California. Our real home. We stayed with friends, visited, chatted, caught up, ate, played and to complete our refreshing weekend, we went to the beach. Blue skies, pounding surf, mid 80s temperature, and…
Fresh & Easy Chocolate Fudge Cake – Review
I discovered Fresh & Easy (a subsidiary of a the British chain Tescos) when we moved to Las Vegas. I’d seen them before in Los Angeles, but we didn’t have one near us so I ‘d never shopped at one. Now, I pass one several times a day. It’s fresh. No fake anything. It’s pretty…
Friday Mix: Fall Rhythms
Here’s a funny thing about the way I blog. The voice I write in when I blog is very different from emails I write. In emails I’m more relaxed, less organized, less planned. Funnier. My emails don’t contain carefully thought out paragraphs, or thought out beginnings, middles, and ends, although they usually have those things…
The Case Against Homework – WW
Oh, Los Angeles Art Charter, how I miss you. 2 1/2 hours of homework this afternoon and tonight with second grader. Yes, the brown paper bag is part of homework. Science homework. No, the dictionary didn’t define the particular words she needed. No, my second grader doesn’t know what a predicate is. Neither do I….
School Begins
End of summer. New state. New city. New school. New calendar. Old backpacks. Old lunch boxes. Old water bottles. Uniforms. First time. Ever. Excited. Nervous. Confident. Worried. 102 degrees and rising. School in Las Vegas started today.
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These are my stories about surviving Hollywood, parenting two girls, and relocating to Las Vegas from Los Angeles, all while consuming a lot of chocolate. -
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