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First allow me to breathe a sigh of relief….haaaaaaaaa!!! Sometime last December, Gaby had her day with the Brits. And when I say Brits, I mean the examiners and staff of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music or ABRSM. The school where Gaby takes voice and guitar lessons is affiliated with the [...]
For the last few months, Gaby has been enjoying her voice classes immensely. This isn’t the first time she has taken music classes. Her first music class was in the summer of 2009 and this is when she discovered her innate love for music and singing. This really wasn’t a big surprise because even as [...]
We are officially on school mode already. And the kids are ecstatic. It means they get to see their friends again and it means they get to enjoy an allowance. Especially Gaby who still has to learn the meaning of budgeting. Upon being given her weekly allowance she immediately treated a couple of friends to [...]
In 2 weeks, it’s back to school. Time to say hello to waking up at dawn to prepare lunch boxes and driving to school on nothing but coffee. How time flies. I barely felt the summer vacation go by and its back to school. Surprisingly, my kids are happy. They can’t wait to see their [...]
When I became a mother the second time, I was pretty sure that my second child would be hitting the important developmental milestones at, more or less, the same periods that her Ate had. I was of the notion that all kids are the same. Or so I thought. It took my second child to [...]
When both Hezzies started going to “big school” this school year, one of my problems was how to review both of them come exam time. Despite the fact that Adi’s exams were on a quarterly basis and Gaby’s were trimestral, the first and last set of exams were going to fall on the same date. [...]
It is now safe to say that the torture is over. The second trimester exam period is FINITO!! To say that it was a grueling week is way understated. It was tough both for me and my daughter, Gaby. I haven’t seen her cry this much during reviews. Sure she has had the occasional bouts [...]
Because my youngest is in the thick of her Phonics, Reading, Language, and Spelling lessons, she is very eager to learn learn and learn some more. Lately her lessons in phonics has been focusing on consonant blends. Specifically, H blends. CH, SH, and TH was done with ease. We ran into some trouble with PH [...]
With the current debate on whether sex education should be part of the curriculum as early as preschool, it came as a surprise that a few days ago my youngest kid blurted, “Mama, how are babies made?” It was so spontaneous and I didn’t know how to handle it. My first taste of sex ed [...]
I knew that something would go wrong. My 1st grade daughter came home yesterday and promptly showed me her Homework notebook. In it was written, “Watch the Presidential/Vice-Presidential Inauguration because it is a historic event.” So this morning I announced that she wasn’t allowed to play in the neighbor’s house because she had to watch [...]
One of the problems with summer is that it can get pretty boring for my kids. Yeah sure they have all day to play with their playgroup but they also get tired of doing that too. So ever since they started preschool, we made it a point to enroll them in summer courses to keep [...]
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