Good Morning Students..

And welcome to MIDDLE SCHOOL!!!!!

This morning Mariama and Holly and I drove down to a friends house to walk to school on the FIRST DAY OF MIDDLE SCHOOL. Middle school effects me on several levels, I want to have JOY for my little sweeties, beautiful excitement and "I DO, I DO" she shouted like a psycho.. I do... think our neighborhood is unique in helping foster friendships and easing our little Nancy Drew's, into the lead role in a middle grade novel, I mean I wish life was like "The Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" and maybe it is on some days.. but I remember 5th grade and how much I loved Mrs. Wilkerson my teacher and 6th grade when I had Mrs. Craft, but I also remember Laura Bartula, yes I had to say her name because she was mean as a snake and tried to bully my best friend Robin Finecky Wienecke constantly and it was stressful, even with all those Dr. Pepper's I drank and Snickers I ate.. I remember.. and I am PROUD and HAPPY that our community is able to walk to their neighborhood school and come home chattering about how exciting it was and how awesome it was..
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So I will not lecture the girls about middle school life and how scary it is that they change for every class and how there are a hundred new rules to follow and electives to choose,

I'm going to enjoy middle school this time, because I'm going to be at the school everyday..(see below) Just kidding!

I'm going to embrace this time in the girl's life and gently guide them through it.. LOL, okay that made me laugh.. but seriously I'm going to try to be the laid back mom who doesn't lecture every five minutes..
"Whose sock is this?"
"Remember don't ever pretend you don't know the answer in class if you do!! never play dumb!!! This is your education we're talking about!!"
"DO NOT even pay attention to those boys!!!?, Although Mariama, maybe you can marry Leo Spadafino so Camilla and I can be related?"
"MOM!!! OMG MOM!!! STOP!!!" HAHAHAHAHAHA.....

The Kingdom of Girls

Once upon a time there lived three girls. All were beautiful and all possessed different gifts. The Kingdom was all aglow with laughter and giggles for many years until one day the King stepped into the cavernous hall and heard nothing. "Wife!" he yelled."What has happened? Did everyone go into the village?" "Oh Honey" said the Queen stepping outside of her chamber wearing a bathrobe and her hair on top of her head. "They're not gone. They're teenagers." "What in God's name is a teenager?" shouted the King. "Oh dear." The queen remarked turning up her chalice of wine. "What isn't a teenager?"

Everyone is Creative

What is your deeply buried gift? Don’t think it’s not down there. It is. Something is going to help it rise to the surface. When I was a child, I dreamt of going to Hollywood and making movies. I remember specifically knowing what it must feel like to do that very thing, although I was in the middle of a rural ranchette in Texas. I carried around a video recorder the size of carry on luggage, which attached to a giant news station style camera, and I made movies. I can think of three or four different films that were lost forever in the 80’s. I remember shooting portraits of my cats sitting alongside cowboy hats, with a little 110 camera, and writing story after story and reading book after book. Talking into an old recorder with an English accent, singing at the top of my lungs as I played the piano. These are the snapshots of my childhood forty years ago. When I graduated from the theatre department at Baylor University, I was not ready emotionally and did...

Whipped Tail Pocket Pit

Ms. Idgie Threadgood Dodd has a permanent heart on her chest. Shawn has been talking about it, and I thought I noticed it, but I can really see it in this pic. I have no idea how it got there, maybe the fact she is kissed about seven hundred times a day by me, Grace and Shawn. Mariama and Holly don't kiss as much.. LOL its so fascinating. How DID it get there? Magic. In this pic she is watching well, everything in the park. Such a good girl.

Robin Dodd Photography

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