Tim A. Cummins @ 7:57 pm
The start of a new week working with the girls. Except this was the beginning of a new year for just Everly and me. Seeing that we pick up Penelope around 2:30 PM, I still get to hang with them both for a good bit of time.
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Sure do love these girls!
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Don’t remember any meat legends per se.
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Huh.
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Everly and I were working on recognition of letters, E and e in particular on the signs around a shopping mall. While there, we saw this Imperial Moth. Fabulous.
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I’m interested in stuff like this. My English friend Anthony said this is not in standard usage today.
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Muchos dias en Español!
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OYB!
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Scratch!
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Everly and I made banana smoothies with Ka’chava this morning.
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This was an ice cream lollypop.
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She cleaned up and organized her work station.
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Mas y mas.
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I’m having her practice drawing and manipulating the markers.
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This is me.
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There are 88 sets of stories on Duolingo. Most of them have four stories each. I finished them all this morning. Although Duolingo just added some intermediate stories recently that I’ll go back and do starting tomorrow.
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I trimmed Everly’s bangs this morning. I’m definitely getting better at it.
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Filled out my mileage report.
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Everly and I ate lunch at the Buford Highway Farmers Market, then went to Huntley Hills Elementary School to pick up Penelope. It was my first day to do that job. I was there about an hour early.
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We joke around a lot. I told her this was my new hat. Not sure where she got it from.
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We were SO GLAD to have Penelope back with us!
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Everly just hugged and hugged her. They stood like that at least two minutes. It was so touching. I felt the same way. She’s one of my best friends.
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I brought her food back from our outing. She devoured her mac and cheese in particular. Her class eats lunch at 10:30 AM!
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I was in Ashley’s bedroom and the fan didn’t seem to be blowing any air. It was so dirty that the air couldn’t get through it. I took it completely apart and cleaned it in the bathtub. It blasts air now. Amen.
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Of course I got the bathtub filthy when I did that. Then had to clean the tub. It didn’t drain very well so I plunged it and pulled out gobs of hair. Pretty gross, but needed doing.
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Did some research then ordered this on Amazon. I’ll work on getting the drains working in a couple of days.
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I had a call from Chester of One Heart Church who wanted to meet up. I suggested this place. It’s very good, even for vegetarians.
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While I was at Azalea, I talked to some of the kids as to when their bus got back home and when their homework would really start. They get there around 2:45 PM. I’ll probably start helping the kids around 3:00 PM to give them a chance to get a bite to eat and let me feed my kids. Also talked about distributing school supplies. I’ll probably do that for several days. They always need stuff.
Escuché Harry.
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Gassed up my car and checked fluid levels.
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Stopped by my treasurer’s house to drop off the financial report that Ashley compiles.
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