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Archive for April, 2007

Giving of ones time

Posted: Friday, April 6th, 2007 @ 9:54 pm in Family Stuff | No Comments »

ScienceKid and his partner spent a few hours today with Dr. John Madsen at University of DE discussing Rocks & Minerals. Last week I called the museum to see if they had someone to answer the boys questions when they visited the Mineralogy Museum in preparation for their Rocks & Minerals […]

Fundraising

Posted: Friday, April 6th, 2007 @ 8:31 pm in Family Stuff | No Comments »

In May our Science Olympiad team will travel from Delaware to Kansas, 1,350 miles west for the National Science Olympiad competition. But just imagine for a moment —- fifteen kids, two coaches, two chaperones; flying or driving 2700 miles; food and hotel for five to seven days; it all adds up to quite allot […]

Life can change in a moment, thankgoodness it didn’t

Posted: Wednesday, April 4th, 2007 @ 10:15 pm in Family Stuff | 1 Comment »

Opening my email this morning I had one of those emails that you dread from my BIL. The scary kind, but thankfully my sister is fine. On her way home from work yesterday she was broadsided by a 15yo, out driving a friend’s mom’s car. Kid ran a red light and […]