Busy

This week has been that, for sure. My time has been occupied by many things, not the least of which is the designing of the Yes 4 Middleboro Schools website (which is just about done...YAY). I had meetings on both Tuesday and Wednesday and am volunteering at the school tonight as part of the Earth Week festivities. The kids have had all kinds of fun this week planting, recycling, and touring the Earth Balloon which was paid for by the PTA, and more specifically by the Cultural Enrichment Committee which I chair. The timing for Earth week couldn't have been better as it came just after the kids had received the awful news that they had lost one of their own...a six year old first grade student who died unexpectedly over the weekend. For privacy reasons, no one really knows how she died. Katherine's class specifically had a conversation about it (she too is in first grade and the classroom in which the girl was in was right next to hers). Katherine only knew the student in passing and she seems to be handling the situation well, mostly because I think she doesn't quite understand the whole thing (I mean she knows about death and dying but I don't think she understands impact and the grieving part just yet). Anyway, I think the Earth Week festivities probably provided a nice distraction.

I still need to update over at Adventures in Education, sharing my true feelings about the override, the casino and other town related concerns. Maybe I will get to that later, after food shopping and errands.