Kaitlyn's first preschool field trip was to the Country Mill Family Farms Apple Orchard/Pumpkin Patch/Cider Mill. We had so much fun! Leave a link to your Wordless Wednesday post with a thumbnail image here! … [Read more...]
OfficeMax Moms and A Day Made Better
October 5, 2010 By
Every year, teachers spend an average of $1,000 of their own money on supplies for their classrooms. It's nothing new, my Mom spent at least that much every year when she taught second grade in the early 80s. I've talked to a couple of teachers in the Lansing area, and they each get $200 for school supplies at the beginning of the year. $200 is a drop in the bucket, people. Kids need journals and pencils and erasers and tape, and especially if it's a Title I school, meaning a large low-income student population, teachers dip into their pockets again and again during the year. The total amount that teachers spend annually is around four BILLION dollars, and Office Max says that is UNACCEPTABLE. That’s why I’ve joined the Max Moms for teachers program to help create awareness and give back to teachers. The Max Moms are working in collaboration with the national “A Day Made Better” cause founded by OfficeMax and nonprofit Adopt-A- Classroom to help erase teacher-funded … [Read more...]
Coming Around Again
October 3, 2010 By
I know nothing stays the same, But if you're willing to play the game, It's coming around again. Even though that Carly Simon song is about marriage, I keep hearing that lyric in my head. Now that I switched to this Genesis framework/Lifestyle child theme and have my categories up at the top, I've been going through the categories looking for ones I can combine so there aren't three rows of them. Which means I've been reading a lot of old posts. You know what? In 2006, 2007, this blog was really good. I wrote exactly the way I spoke, let words just pour out of me onto the screen. I wrote posts where I talked about what I did all day, what I watched on TV that night, places I went, things I saw. I told my readers how awesome they were, how much I appreciated them, how important they were to me. I wrote posts where I linked to new readers, it blows my mind how some of today's most well-known bloggers were once my commenters. But I know exactly why those bloggers stopped reading … [Read more...]
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