Left: Me at the beach in '92.
Right: Me at the beach in '09.
I wouldn't trade my beautiful, amazing, wonderful children for anything, but it would sure be nice to look like that again!!
Thursday, July 30, 2009
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Starting with the baby going clockwise: Levi, Zoe, Eve, Sophia, Juliet, Tabitha, Clara, Gemma, Violet
Our Olive Plants
Starting with the baby going clockwise: Levi, Zoe, Eve, Sophia, Juliet, Tabitha, Clara, Gemma, Violet
Like Olive Plants
Hello, and welcome to my family's blog. I'm Kyndra, a working mom, and my husband, Rob is a working dad. Our daughters are very typical, all-American girls, and our son is perfect. We also have a Jack Russell Terrier, Kokopelli (Pelli) who is four and just what you'd expect of a Jack Russell.
I'm an English teacher. Right now I'm only teaching part time for the local community college and an online consortium of community colleges. Next year I plan to go back to work teaching high school full time.
The girls are all little geniuses, and, if you know them, you know I'm not just saying that. In fact, Eve, who is now in 9th grade, scored very high on her 7th grade FCAT (99th percentile for everything), so she was "tagged" for the Duke University Talent Identification Program, and took the ACT when she had just turned 12 years old, scoring high enough to be admitted into the program. Zoe, who is now in 10th grade, has already completed 3 college credits, and also scored high enough on the ACT, which she took in 8th grade, to be admitted into Duke TIP. Sophia, now in 6th grade, finished up her 4th grade year reading beyond 12th grade level, according to the testing the elementary school does. Juliet scored a 5 for math on FCAT in the 3rd grade and excelled at math in 4th grade. She's now in 5th grade and is doing just as well in all of her subjects. Tabitha has superior artistic talent, both for drawing and writing, and had a poem published last year when she was in 3rd grade. Clara is in 3rd grade now, and makes straight As, as she has every year. Gemma, who is in kindergarten, can read and spell short words by sounding them out. Little Violet, who is only four, can sing her ABCs, knows her colors, and can write everyone's names in the family. Levi is only one, but he knows all of his sisters by name (this may sound easy, but remember that he has eight of them). He knows where is tummy is, although he sometimes confuses his nose with his toes. He does know where to put his shoes, anyway, but just this morning he tried to put his jacket on like a pair of pants. Ivy-Jane, the baby, is a genius, too. I can tell by the bright eyes. Obviously superior intellects. :)
I'm an English teacher. Right now I'm only teaching part time for the local community college and an online consortium of community colleges. Next year I plan to go back to work teaching high school full time.
The girls are all little geniuses, and, if you know them, you know I'm not just saying that. In fact, Eve, who is now in 9th grade, scored very high on her 7th grade FCAT (99th percentile for everything), so she was "tagged" for the Duke University Talent Identification Program, and took the ACT when she had just turned 12 years old, scoring high enough to be admitted into the program. Zoe, who is now in 10th grade, has already completed 3 college credits, and also scored high enough on the ACT, which she took in 8th grade, to be admitted into Duke TIP. Sophia, now in 6th grade, finished up her 4th grade year reading beyond 12th grade level, according to the testing the elementary school does. Juliet scored a 5 for math on FCAT in the 3rd grade and excelled at math in 4th grade. She's now in 5th grade and is doing just as well in all of her subjects. Tabitha has superior artistic talent, both for drawing and writing, and had a poem published last year when she was in 3rd grade. Clara is in 3rd grade now, and makes straight As, as she has every year. Gemma, who is in kindergarten, can read and spell short words by sounding them out. Little Violet, who is only four, can sing her ABCs, knows her colors, and can write everyone's names in the family. Levi is only one, but he knows all of his sisters by name (this may sound easy, but remember that he has eight of them). He knows where is tummy is, although he sometimes confuses his nose with his toes. He does know where to put his shoes, anyway, but just this morning he tried to put his jacket on like a pair of pants. Ivy-Jane, the baby, is a genius, too. I can tell by the bright eyes. Obviously superior intellects. :)
Kyndra's Book List
- A Prayer for Owen Meany
- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Angela's Ashes
- Beloved
- Clan of the Cave Bear
- Emma
- Empire Falls
- Harry Potter (whole series)
- I Know This Much is True
- Little Earthquakes
- Me & Emma
- Memoirs of a Geisha
- Middlesex
- Midwives
- My Sister's Keeper
- Pride and Prejudice
- Sarah's Key
- She's Come Undone
- Sula
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- The Book of Ruth
- The Cider House Rules
- The Color Purple
- The Crucible
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
- The Deep End of the Ocean
- The Good Mother
- The Handmaid's Tale
- The Kite Runner
- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
- The Pilot's Wife
- The Poisonwood Bible
- The Scarlet Letter
- The Secret Life of Bees
- The Shack
- The Time Traveler's Wife
- Those Who Save Us
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Tortilla Flat
- Twilight (whole series)
- We Were the Mulvaneys
- Where the Heart Is
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