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What a great weekend! This is the first full week of March and that means a big birthday is coming up for me. With each new year added to my life, I often seem to get more introspective. I look back at the past year and look ahead at the new one beginning. I have …

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Relentless adjectiveUS  /rɪˈlent·ləs/ continuing in a determined way without any interruption This is going to be a big year. I have made some big commitments to cross off by December 31st. Taking on all of these will require a big head change and major heart change. National Board Certified Teacher For some strange reason, in my 21st year of teaching, …

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I’m still alive after a whirlwind August that involved lots of wet shoelace tying, paper filing, bus tag cutting, and general back-to-school chaos. While the weather around here still screams “SUMMER FOREVER!!”, the calendar says I can finally show the world my fall decor that has been up so long, it now needs dusting. The …

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June flew by while on the road out west. July flew by while enjoying a few days of downtime with Atlas. And before my school bag was even unpacked, it’s time to pack it back up again. School starts in a few days. As you can see my room is not quite ready. I have …

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This is one story I never thought I would have to tell. But after a few days, I’m now fully educated on dog snake bite treatment. My little running partner is on the sidelines for a few days while he recovers from a case of being too curious about some hiding places in our yard. …

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I’ll start with my May review. Basically May was a Vegas trip and  the end of the school year. I don’t want to look back at 10 years of blogging and look at all the Mays, but I bet they are skimpy and pitiful and reek of survival mode. As my momma said, June is …

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I’m taking down that cool little announcement board that displays my hopes and dreams for April. They didn’t happen.  Long story short, we had a puppy issue. Atlas got very sick all of a sudden, and we had a 3-week discovery to try to figure out what happened and what’s next. During those 3 weeks, …

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