A NYT story on the application process public school kids go through for middle school in NYC. A gift from the city that can turn even public education into a rat race.
HT Instapundit and Ann Althouse.
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About me
I'm 43, and yes, that is a good age. Attorney, mom and wife: 3 full-time jobs, which makes me jack of all trades, master of none. I like it. Two boys, 13 and 10, otherwise known here as One and Two, just to keep things simple. Husband? He is the inspiration for the title of this blog. He works 14 hour days, to which I can only say: I'm incredibly grateful he doesn't work weekends.
I love: my boys, my God, this city, good food, good books, my church, and dogs (unless they're really, really small).
I hate: fear, cold weather, grey skies, reality TV, shoes that pinch, and Daylight Savings Time.
You can email me at grasswidowsdiary (at) gmail (dot) com - I love mail, too.
I love: my boys, my God, this city, good food, good books, my church, and dogs (unless they're really, really small).
I hate: fear, cold weather, grey skies, reality TV, shoes that pinch, and Daylight Savings Time.
You can email me at grasswidowsdiary (at) gmail (dot) com - I love mail, too.
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--- Roy Chapman Andrews
“Time is a treasure that melts away. It escapes us, slipping through our fingers like water through the mountain rocks. Tomorrow will soon be another yesterday. Our lives are so very short. Yesterday has gone and today is passing by. But what a great deal can be done for the love of God in this short space of time!”
--- Josemaria Escriva
"Do all in your power not to fall, for strong athletes should not fall. But if you do fall, get up again at once and continue the contest. Even if you fall a thousand times ... rise up again each time, and keep on doing this until the day of your death. For it is written, "If a righteous man falls seven times' - that is repeatedly throughout his life - seven times 'shall he rise again.'"
--- Saint John of Karpathos
Kids and Books
- Fiction at Half Past Eleven
- HAISLN 2011 Book List
- Fiction at Almost Eleven
- Fiction at Almost Eight
- History and other Non-Fiction: the Ten-Turning-Eleven Edition
- History and Science at Ten
- Fiction at Ten
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- What to Read When You’re Almost Ten: The Fiction Edition
- Reading in First Grade
- Books We're Reading
- Boys and Books: The Nine and Six Year Old Edition
- Book List
- Reading While Rome Burns
- One's Bookshelf
- I Like Green Eggs and Ham, Sam I Am
- Bad Books Make for Poor Readers
- History Books for Boys
- Read Alone Books for Boys
- Reading to Boys Part 2
- Read Aloud List for Boys
- Amazing Children's Books
Some Favorite Posts
- A Lesson Found in a Case of the Wiggles
- A Year of Orthodoxy
- Best Brother Award
- Fine Motor Skills and Boys
- Growing Up Nervous
- I Hate Valentine's Day
- Kids and Grades
- Kids and Money
- Late Night on 9/11 with Two
- Life on Hold
- Oscar's Testimony
- The Gift of Forgiveness
- The Ike Saga
- The Time has Come, the Walrus Said
- Un-frustrating Our Children
- What a Good Boy
Blogs I like to read
Things to check out
- Ancient Faith Radio
- Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese
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- Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America
- Flying around the World
- Heartline Ministries
- Hometta - Jenny and Mark Johnson
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- International Princess Project
- IOCC
- Living Water
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- Two: On Exercise
- Bittersweet Christmas
- Merry Christmas!
- Santa's Favorite Cookies
- Another Gift Wrap Idea
- One Quotes
- Reasons Not to Believe in God
- Fall in Pictures
- Breakfast Bliss
- The Trip to the Mall
- Park-Bound
- Quote of the Day
- Helping Hannah
- Worth Wearing Glasses For
- What I Don't Miss
- Coward
- Bragging about my Husband
- New Christmas Carols
- Ball and Chain
- Cookies and Gin
- We're Getting Ready
- Contradictions
- Oh My!
- The Great Blizzard of 2008
- Snow Flurries
- Party?
- Snow!
- Lobstah
- My Real Christmas List
- Choppy Choppy Bang Bang
- The Lunchtime Singer
- How Do You Feel Today?
- That Little Acronym
- If You're in Houston this Saturday ...
- I Forgot to Mention
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