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School report cards

Earlier this week both kids brought home their first report cards. I’ve got to tell you all that I was highly impressed with the results that I saw. My daughter who is in grade 8 brought home a straight A report card with one A+ and my son who is in grade 6 [...]

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Another long weekend coming up

I swear the children spend more time out of school than they do in school. This weekend is another long weekend for the children. On Friday they have no school as it is Rememberance day here in Canada. Then of course they will be home for Saturday and Sunday. Will I [...]

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Well yesterday both kids came home from school with some stories to tell me. Apparently both of them are being picked on at the bus stop and this is really pi**ing me off! I already went through this crap with my daughter a couple of years ago and now apparently it’s happening to [...]

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Back to school cleaning

You parents are going to know exactly what I’m talking about here. I’m talking about the major amount of work that it takes to get your kids ready to go back to school. Not only do you have to purchase tons and tons of school supplies, but if your kids are anything like [...]

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Getting excited for middle school

Normally it’s my daughter who is bugging me about going back to school so you can imagine my surprise when I noticed my son on the middle school website last night. He was checking out the different sports programs that they offer and got quite excited when he discovered that they offer an archery [...]

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Disappointing project results

My daughter is in grade 7 and thinks she’s a perfectionist. Well she’s not really but she really does try in her projects and in school. Well over the past couple of weeks she has received a couple of disappointing project results. One of her projects required using scopes and she did [...]

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My little man is growing up!

My *baby* is 10 and is in grade 5. Well yesterday I discovered that this little guy is in fact growing up. He brought home a paper yesterday to enroll him in to junior high school for next year. That’s right my *baby* will be in middle school next year. Where [...]

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Glee club

My daughter is in grade 7 and is having the time of her life. Right now she is in the school art club, works in the library two days a week and helps out with recycling one day a week. Well… now she wants to join the Glee club. I personally think [...]

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Wonderful school pictures

I have to say that this is probably the first year ever that I am highly impressed with both of the kids school pictures. My daughter had hers taken last week and my son’s was taken yesterday. We already got the proofs back and were extremely impressed with the results. I guess [...]

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School picture day

Today is the day that my son’s school takes their school pictures. This kid is in grade 5 but by the way he was dressed, you would have sworn that he was only in grade 2. I caught him as he was going out the door and made him change his clothes. [...]

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