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This morning Emma had her last dance recital recording for ballet. We are officially all done with dance for this year. Afterward we headed out to the barn for the afternoon. The plants have grown like crazy since the last time we were there. This was the biggest lady bug
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This has been a crazy school year... the first day of school ended early because of a sewage leak at the school. The last day of school ended with distance learning for the last 45 days. This afternoon Emma's school had a farewell parade. Usually on the last
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I just found 87 photos of Olivia from the day when she was "funky". Clearly she has having a lot of fun taking selfies...
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Today Emma had a meeting with her librarian, art teacher, music teacher and PE teacher. They did some stretching, fun games and singing. At some point today Olivia decided she wanted to "get funky". I wasn't sure what that meant, but apparently this is it. This
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At the end of last year this guy was in the news. He drives 4 hours one way from Minnesota to Iowa to pick up Krispy Kreme since we don't have any in Minnesota. Krispy Kreme is my favorite. Its the only donut I've ever seen
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Today was day 1 (of 2) dance recital days. Their dance studio is recording all of them doing their dances at home and is going to put together a video since they can't do their recital on the big stage this year. Preparation started last night. Under normal
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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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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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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