Lets Go Kiddo

For a long time I’ve worked very hard to keep focused on life and Kiddo and the adventure we’re on, but I can’t stay silent any longer. His name was Alex Pretti.    Her name was Renee Good. They were murdered. Don’t sanewash it.  Don’t pretend they “deserved” it.  Or “Just comply.”   NO! To everyone reading this who told us good luck and enjoy the adventure and who wished they had the skills or opportunities to come with or leave as well… We wish you all well.  We wish you safety.  We wish you were here with us.  We wish you the best. To everyone who told us that we were “over reacting” or that “Biden won, just calm down.”  F**K YOU! To those who hand waved their Trump friends or family members or spouses or people in their lives because they didn’t want to be uncomfortable or “lose a friend over something as silly as politics”…… F**K YOU! Also, we TOLD you.  We told you that Trump wouldn’t go away or be held accountabl...

Finally…. Finally….. Break is here.  Not quite, not 100%, since J still needs to go in all next week for PD and Training and stuff like that, but for Kiddo it is here. The days before the break were filled with some last minute stuff and finalizing the year, but grades were done and already put in, so it was more turning in late work and doing all the end of quarter stuff.  Teachers know.  There was also a performance in Chinese Class and Kiddo was the leader for her class.  She got to get up and do the speaking parts with her teacher.  The other kids had a line or two here and there, but Kiddo had about a dozen lines.  Then, it was time for the dance, which again, Kiddo was right out front and center for.  I’m super proud of her…. Not just for the Chinese language skills, but also for the performing.  I hated stuff like that when I was her age and would purposefully tank myself so I could avoid doing that.  Kiddo loves it.  She gets n...

Break is approaching quickly and we are ready for some warm temps and good times.  It’s raining and cold today as it’s about 7C (44F) and windy.  Yesterday was better, it wasn’t rainy, but it was still cool.  We had planned on going to Century Park since it was supposed to be in the high teens to 20 degrees (62-68Fish), but it never got there and it was overcast and windy, so the feels like temps were nearer 9C (49F) and that is a bit too much to consider walking around the park and riding the rides there.   We tacked a different direction and headed out to one of the many museums here.  The girls had gone before, but they took me.  It was nice.  It was the artifact museum and the place is larger than you would think with 5 floors of displays.  We popped in and saw bronze items, some of the jade, and the pottery; some of which was 20,000BP or Late Paleolithic Era with a rough date of 22,000-18,000 yrs BC, so that was pottery and made items that ...

It’s a slow march towards break.  The long slog through fatigue and keeping up with all that’s been going on until it is finally here.  Until it’s finally break.  Until it’s finally February.   J has it even harder, as she started 2 weeks before Kiddo did and Kiddo has had some half days, but those were working days for J.  As for Kiddo, come February Break, she will have completed 63.4% of her school year and had 10 days off.  TEN!  Compared to if J were still with OSide School going into the same February break period, the kids would be 62.9% done (almost the same), but would have already had 19 days off.  The march towards the break here is brutal.  For all of us. Kiddo is burnt.  The longest break she’s had is the first week of October and that was 6 days.  However, she’s also had 3 weekend days as “make up” days following days off in October, another random day off in November that was made up on a Saturday, and then a make...