Showing posts with label Kids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kids. Show all posts
Monday, August 18, 2025

Carousel Acres And A Kid's Birthday

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Leah's birthday celebration began, as it should, with a cherry cheesecake.  Then presents, then we piled in the car. For Leah's birt...
Monday, January 13, 2025

Getting The Kid Back To School

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  With all the weather on Friday night/Saturday getting the kid back to U Florida from Michigan was quite a challenge.   ...
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Monday, November 25, 2024

Kid Turns 21

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Where does the time go? Abby turned 21 this weekend. She came up from university with her boyfriend to celebrate her birthday with us. Leah ...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Scuba Diving The Devil's Den

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Devil's Den is a spring about 40 minutes from Gainesville that offers some fun diving practice in fresh water. The UF Scuba Club had bo...
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

High School Level: Completed

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Today was the Senior Clap-Out to celebrate the very last day of High School for the graduating seniors. They would walk through the school b...
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Saturday, March 23, 2024

The Michigan State Mock Trial Competition

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As Leah's team had advanced after winning the County finals to the State finals, I drove ugly early this morning to Lansing and the Ingh...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Proud Parent Moment

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So last night was Senior Honors Night at the high school. Leah will be graduating Summa Cum Laude and was awarded for doing so. She's al...
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Monday, March 11, 2024

The Kids Are More Than All Right - Indian American Students Association Show Edition

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Saturday night I went to see the International Academy's Indian Students Association's annual show. Leah was a part of the Senior Fu...
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Wednesday, March 06, 2024

Begun The Water Wars Have!

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High School Water Wars that is. Expect to see lots of Seniors running around in public with water guns trying to soak each other to survive ...
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Friday, February 09, 2024

Cyberbullying To Imminently Backfire

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High School kinds can be dumb. High School kids can be cruel. In this case we get a lovely combo of both. It seems that a little bint by the...
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Monday, January 15, 2024

December Kid Trip

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In the last week of Decmeebr, I took the kids to Playa del Carmen in Mexico. A  nice holiday trip for them to de-stress, and a reward for th...
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Saturday, March 11, 2023

The Kids Are Alright

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Drove out to Grand Rapids (on the west side of the state about 2 hours and a bit away) to spend the day at the High School Mock Trial Compet...
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Saturday, April 09, 2022

Water Wars: Abby's First "Kill"

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Water Wars are well and truly underway for the senior class this year. A quality time where disparate teams come together and try to get the...
Monday, September 13, 2021

Some Teen And Adult Drama

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As I've said before, Covid is causing lots of anxiety and mental health problems, and exacerbating existing mental health problems - and...
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Tuesday, August 17, 2021

A Birthday And The First Day Of School

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Today Leah turned 15.   It is also the first day of school for the kids. So it began with a cherry cheesecake with 15+1 candles, flowers, an...
Sunday, June 20, 2021

Father's Day 2021

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First off, Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there. Father's Day here was excellent. It started off with some coffee and the ki...
Saturday, March 20, 2021

A Chip Off The Ol' Block

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Leah as a high school freshman decided to try out this year for the school's mock trial team. She made the junior varsity team and in he...
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Monday, February 22, 2021

Stuff Kids Say - High School Edition

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The kids just returned back to school (via Zoom from home) after their break (also at home). Leah reporting on her school day today while we...
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Friday, January 24, 2020

Abby's First Independent Drive

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Her first drive as driver-in-command, with no parent or other controlling authority present, she chose to take her sister to Starbucks for s...
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Saturday, December 07, 2019

A Day That Will Live In Driving Test Infamy

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Abby had her driving test today. Wish I had some happy news to reportas she is a quite capable driver, but she didn't make it out of th...
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