We were leaving the YMCA last night and I asked Beth how her first day of volunteering went.
“Great!” she said.
“Why did you decide to volunteer here?” I asked, thinking of yesterday’s post.
“I wanted to give something back to the community and this was the first place I thought of since we come all the time.”
My heart swelled.
Later, she asked me an…
Today is the first day of school. Adam and Beth got out the uniforms this morning for the first time in almost three months, and started a new chapter in their lives.
For Adam, it’s first grade. These days the jump from kindergarten to first grade isn’t much different from first to second. The era of standardized testing and school “accountability” has leached most of the…