The Hubster and I spent a lovely, albeit busy day together. Actually, our adventures started last night. As our moving date gets closer and closer (Two weeks! Two weeks!) our “date nights / days” have changed a little bit. Instead of going out for dinner, we find ourselves in Canadian Tire and Home Depot, dreaming about all the projects we hope to take on in our new home. A deck! A dishwasher! A garden! A finished basement! New windows! …just to name a few. We know that many of these projects will be years in the making, but it’s lovely to dream about how it will all look when everything…

Teenagers these days fascinate me. In some ways I feel like they already know so much more than I ever did at that age, but then at the same time I sometimes have to wonder if they are really prepared for life outside the four walls of a high school. One of the things I am constantly surprised by is their attitudes towards tests. Now, this certainly doesn’t apply to everyone, but I always find there is a certain group of students in every class that panic a little during tests. These are good kids who have either forgotten about the test, didn’t prepare as well as they should have,…