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Fun with Puppies, Beaches, & Girlies, oh my!
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A Gaggle of Girls
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Last year, due to some forces beyond my control, we werent able to go to the Topsfield Fair.Its the longest-running county fair in the country, and its a lot of fun.Theres so much to do and seeI have so many wonderful memories of going to the fair when I was a kid, and now the girls have memories of the fair from attending every year we lived in Ipswich. This year was wonderfulwe started the day j...
10-19
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A Gaggle of Girls
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The girls are now in school, which is a monumental change.Another huge change that happened around the same time is that they can now have dairy.After 11 years of being comfortably moored in one place, weve starting a new journey, into waters that we havent charted or tested yet. Were zooming away from where we had been, like a motor boat speeding out of the harbor.A part of me doesnt quite believ...
10-02
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LGs school is across the street from our house, and about a 5-10 minute walk from a local beach.Her teacher is truly wonderful, and planned a spontaneous trip to the beach.We packed up shovelspailstubs, and went down to collect shells and build sand castles! We worked on matching skills (collecting 10 each of blue mussel, littorina, and lady slipper shells), and then worked on the physics of molec...
09-30
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A Gaggle of Girls
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Ahoy!As noted in my iCal calendar and on the girls assignment notebooks for school, Today (9/19) is Talk Like a Pirate Day!. Avast me hearties, we be learnin new lingo!We changed Facebooks language to English (Pirate), learned small talk in Pirate, then had a second lesson about violent acts and threats, and listened to the TLAPD theme song. Nobody wanted to walk the plank or swab the deck.Arrrr!A...
09-21
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A Gaggle of Girls
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Today was my girls first day of school.But its not just their first day for this school year, but their first day ever.Theyve been homeschooled until now, but with the separation and me looking for work, they needed to go to school this year.It was a very difficult decision to make, and one that has been the cause of much anxiety and much excitement for our family. My parents were nice enough to t...
09-11
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