Tag: school
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An auspicious beginning
Tonight as we were getting ready for dinner Enoch came to me to ask me for help with his math. He acknowledged that he is largely two years behind because of basically ignoring school for 7th and 8th grades. I thought it was promising that he brought it up proactively and that he was patient…
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Good things happening
We’ve been waiting for weeks for Savannah to hear back from Utah State University about whether the was accepted into the Music Therapy program. After her last interview she felt good and based on what they told her there I really felt like she was a great example of the kind of student they would…
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Social distancing
Yesterday WTW determined that the infrastructure teams should work from home full time until further notice in order to minimize the risk of spreading coronavirus. Today President Trump declared a national emergency for this pandemic and then later in the afternoon the governor ordered that all K-12 schools close for at least two weeks. The…
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Changes abound
When I got to work today I learned almost immediately that Sean Ellicott is taking a different position which means if may decided to blame anything on PMs I’ll be his scapegoat. I also heard that Jared Tritch is being demoted. Just more turmoil and the possibility of losing another good engineer. With almost everyone…
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Happy birthday Ezra
Laura and I have been feeling that Ezra should come home soon. Today we meet with the principal at Deerfield elementary to talk about options to help him successfully begin attending school. We were very encouraged by their flexibility and understanding and as we left we knew it was time to bring Ezra home today.…
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So many options
I failed to do scripture study yesterday because Laura and I spent all evening – until 2AM – talking about possibilities such as selling the house to pay our debts and moving. The real possibility exists that we could pay the debts and still put 20% down on a house that is big enough for…
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Success despite obstacles
I managed to have a successful day despite everything planned and unplanned that I had to work through. I worked from home to be able to do lunch with Noah and meet with school officials regarding Ezra. That was all fine but we had to throw in Addie getting sick so that she couldn’t come…
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Donuts for Ezra
Laura asked if I could come home early to meet with the school counselor and Ezra’s teacher at the end of school – he had had a day. When they asked him to tell us what happened all he said was that he was going to get a donut. Apparently he kept trying to leave…
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18 September 2009
Today was a very full day. I was up at 4:45 easily after falling asleep early last night. I was out the door by 6:35 and at work by 7:00 am. That was good because I had to leave soon afternoon to get to Savannah’s class for her book presentation. Unfortunately the presentation was canceled…
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Journal 22 July 2003
It has been an extremely busy four months. I finally got me graduation application signed for August graduation. That’s next week. In my last entry I said I was going to apply to three schools. I decided not to apply to Lehigh partly because of the high tuition of private schools. I decided at the…