Archive for October, 2010

Rallying to Restore Sanity

Sunday, October 31st, 2010

I suppose it wasn’t very sane that the four of us took three different paths to the rally yesterday, but to us it was perfectly logical.
Scotty started first by picking up some friends and Aunt Annie and driving down to park in L’Enfant Plaza. They arrived at the rally place in time to get […]

Sixth Grade Parent

Sunday, October 24th, 2010

This is a big year for John – he is a sixth grader and the top of the food chain at school. The sixth graders do a fair amount of fund raising to help pay for such things as graduation, class trip to Philadelphia, and an end of the year party. Knowing I wasn’t going […]

Working Hard

Sunday, October 24th, 2010

I’m blaming my lack of blogging on my job. It is just so all consuming. The Sunday of Columbus Day weekend was the first day I didn’t do any work since the week before school actually began. I’ve found if I do all my planning for the week on the weekend then I have enough […]

Season’s End

Sunday, October 24th, 2010

Caitlin’s field hockey season ended as it always does – on the field of Lake Braddock with a loss. It was a sad moment for us, not because of the loss, but because it is the end of Caitlin’s high school field hockey career. We’ve logged a lot of time in the field hockey bleachers […]

Back to Work

Saturday, October 2nd, 2010

Scotty’s sabbatical ended on Tuesday when he began his new job at, . . . wait for it, . . . EMC. Yes, the same company which laid him off six months ago and has been paying him severance all this time has hired him back at the same salary. Plus he’ll be working with […]