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Emma's school is winding down. Only 7 days left! On Tuesday (day 38) Emma submitted her entry for the virtual variety show. Her talent... gymnastics. She choreographed a whole routine to Girl on Fire (Olivia's favorite song right now). I've learned a lot about
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We've been coming to Duluth for Memorial Day weekend for 3 years. This has... by far... been the best (warmest) weather we've ever had. The girls were very excited this morning about a beach day. This morning we headed to Black Beach. Its named for the
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Emma and I made a deal that she didn't have to do all her writing assignment on Friday if she agreed to write a couple each day between Friday and Tuesday. I didn't even say a word to Emma this morning and she finished her 3
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Since today was a flex Friday Emma didn't have any new assignments. Instead she started working on her special writing assignment. She is answering 10 letters from kindergartners, and she has to send them a video telling them all about 1st grade. Braden had some work calls, so
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Today was Superhero Thursday for virtual spirit week. Emma's teacher hosted a virtual scavenger hunt with the whole class. From what I could hear from the kitchen it sounds like they all had a blast. Emma had another meeting with her teacher and a couple other kids from
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This week Emma's school is having a virtual spirit week. We didn't participate Monday or Tuesday, but we did today for Whatcha' Reading Wednesday. Our birthday parade schedule is picking up. We had one yesterday, one today and two next Thursday. I love when the
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Not much excitement going on with Emma's farm. Today she bought pigs. After school we took advantage of the nice weather and went to 3 parks. It's not even summer and we've already crossed off over half of our city parks. We're
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Today was Olivia's last day of preschool. Her teachers had a farewell celebration in the school parking lot. They sang songs. They danced. They blew bubbles. Emma bought cows for her farm today. This afternoon we turned one of our windows into a stained glass window. I didn&
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We've had rain pretty much all weekend. I'm glad that all our trees and plants are getting watered at the barn. I just planted 2 honeycrisp apple trees before the rain rolled in. Since we haven't been able to play outside we introduced the
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It was Emma's second flex Friday. She checked in and we did the gym assignment for this week. They would have had their spring field day, so her gym teacher gave them a bunch of activities they could do from home. This afternoon we turned our sprinklers back