This past week was a crazy one -- two snow days (Monday and Tuesday snow related school closures because we got a LOT of snow), then two days at the end of the week where school was canceled because of parent/teacher conferences. So, the upshot was that Rachel attended exactly one day of school last week.
I'm starting to call snow days "Mandatory home-schooling days," the brilliant term that my friend Molly in Minnesota, a single mom of three kids for whom snow days and other school-related closures are a real problem, coined.
We signed Rachel up for one day of Lola's Lab, a very cool art camp that operates even when school is closed, for reasons that are mysterious to be but VERY WELCOME. Anyway, I was out of town Friday morning and Drew needed to get to work earlier than usual so he asked Lola (the artist mom who founded and operates the camp) if he could bring Rachel in to the Friday camp, too.
Her response:
HI Drew,
Thanks for sending us Rachel again, she is the BEST! We are totally crazy over her. She made me the most beautiful portrait on Tuesday too.
It's true, Rachel had drawn a portrait of Lola's head, which she was thrilled to receive.
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Today, Sunday, Drew took Rachel to the farmer's market and to get donuts while I spent time preparing for a story I'm going to write this week.
Rachel charmed everyone at the farmer's market, skipping from one booth to the next, and people kept giving her samples of things, like jam on crackers and dips of honey. On the way back to the car, Drew asked her, "Were you charming everyone at the farmer's market?"
"Yeah," she replied nonchalantly. "It's my job."
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