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HAPPY SUNDAY EVERYONE!
I have to start this post by going back to last Saturday. Our day started by traveling to watch Remi play in his first basketball tournament of the season. The boys have improved so much. They lost their first game by just one basket. While they also lost the next two games, we saw so much promise. As 6th graders, they are learning more every day but need to recondition their bodies to playing 3 games a day and to take a beat before they shoot.
Saturday evening we attended Charlotte’s first dance recital. After a little confusion about where to enter the event, we were delighted by the wonderful Christmas program. Charlie performed with her class and then later in the program she and her daddy were part of the daddy-daughter dance. She was absolutely beaming on stage with her daddy.
Monday was a horrific day. About an hour away from us there was a school shooting. 1 teacher and 1 freshman student were killed and several others injured, two still in critical condition at the last report. The shooter, a 15-year-old girl took her own life right before the police arrived. This was at a Pre-K-12 school. A school that was in our conference for sports and other academic events. We have been to that school several times while our children were in school. We know people whose children and grandchildren go there. It is heartwrenching whenever these shootings occur but this one hit me hard. Friday, other high schools in the area walked out of classes and marched to the state Capitol building in response to Monday’s shooting chanting “no more silence, end gun violence” and “books, not bullets” during their nearly three-mile route. This has to stop. Mental illness is always cited and that may have been the issue that started this, but this 15-year-old had a gun that she shouldn’t have had. Both need to be addressed and this country needs to decide what is more important, their children or their guns.
Friday also marked Remington’s 12th birthday. We had a big snowfall Thursday night that brought back memories of the blizzard that happened the night he was born. Daughter #1 calls him her blizzard baby. The trip to the hospital was a real event following a police car and a snowplow. It’s a night we will never forget. Kaden was snowed in with his other grandparents for several days. Hard to believe it was twelve years ago. He is growing up to be a wonderful young man, we are so proud of him.
How was your week?
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We had a terrible school shooting at Santa Fe High School on my last teaching day before I retired. I stayed in lockdown with three kindergarten classes in the back room of the library for hours. It was horrific.
Congratulations to your grandkids in their endeavors at this busy time of the year.
A friend of a friend goes to the church associated with that school, so I’ve been paying attention to the news. I didn’t see anything about the student march, though — that’s the kind of thing I would like to see in the news!
I am totally with you about the gun violence. It’s unfortunate that our Congressmen would rather keep their donations from the gun lobby than do what is right. I think most people support basic gun control solutions.
Such a tragedy! I agree with you about gun control. I can’t even believe nothing has been done to this point. Good for the students who marched to the capitol.
Have a wonderful Christmas celebration!