Time that, looking at my family update letter, I don't have much of!

Whew! What a year it has been!

As we sit here in the middle of the second wave of the COVID virus, and with a new, more contagious version making the rounds, I’m kind of blown away by how much we actually did this year, given that the world in general slowed WAY down after March.

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Had a half-day release today to join with the selection committee for the BCTF New Teacher's Conference. Lots of great-sounding workshops. We didn't get done, though, and so I'm having another half-day on Thursday as well... morning this time.

Rhys was only at school for half a day today as well... his afternoon was spent doing voice over work for ( Read more... )

We submitted Rhys' name for a Canadian Young Actor's Award called The Joey's (https://www.joeyawards.com/).

He won the category we submitted him to for his work on Upload.

My son is officially an award-winning actor...

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHUHppXhSQk/

So... missed yesterday, but here I am back at it again. :-) I will hopefully get MOST of the days in, anyways.

I'm also working on a month of "unfuck your habitat", where I'm working on doing a minimum of 20 minutes dedicated cleaning a day. With luck, and consistency between myself, my husband, and my son, that will get our house to a state where ( Read more... )

I have considerable anxiety over the myPITA (Provincial Intermediate and Middle Years Teachers Association) email inbox. This might have something to do with the 500 actionable emails sitting in it... and the fact that that number isn't getting smaller, even as more emails keep coming in.

The biggest problem happens when I actually close the tab/ ( Read more... )

Today is the official US election, and I'm feeling for my US friends.

I hope that things go smoothly down there. I hope you get rid of that incredible disaster that is your president. I hope that the transfer of power goes smoothly and that you get a more progressive gov't in place, and that they have the seats in the house/congress/senate/whatever ( Read more... )

My friend and coworker's mother passed away not last weekend but the weekend before, so she has been absent on bereavement leave. As a result, she hasn't been in my class to teach our ELL/SIOP lessons, so I have been working with a (perfectly lovely) teacher-on-call. I've been open with the class about why, and today we talked about how to talk ( Read more... )

I want to blog more... I do...

I've been having a two-fold problem, however...

1.) I have been so overwhelmed that trying to create coherent paragraphs has been problematic.

2.) I have been primarily trying to blog on my main computer, which is right beside my husband.

#1 is a clear and easily understood problem. #2 is problematic because my husband ( Read more... )

Have decided that Sourdough is currently too labour intensive. I like the IDEA of sourdough bread... I just don't like the work involved at creating sourdough bread. I did manage to make a couple of loaves that were really dense, but had the lovely cell structures and definitely the great taste of sourdough. I had several lovely sandwiches that ( Read more... )

Let the sour-dough rise overnight, and baked it this morning. I think I left it a little too long, as I don't think it had the energy to "spring" quite as much as it otherwise would have. It had some nice cell-structure, though, and while it was a dense, chewy loaf, it definitely had the sour-dough tang. Frazer was pleased with it, and encouraged ( Read more... )