I’m having a good couple of days. Pardon my enthusiasm, but I had to update you on Tristan’s school foibles.<\/p>\n
You’ll remember a couple of weeks ago<\/a>, we got called in for a parent-teacher confab after a mere eight days<\/em> of school, causing me to believe we should perhaps stop saving for Tristan’s education and instead start saving for bail money.<\/p>\n Yesterday, we got the first ‘goal worksheet’ back in Tristan’s communication folder (because he alternates between a French and an English teacher, he hasn’t been back with the other teacher since the week of our conference.) Five goals, five happy faces for five goals achieved. Go Tristan!<\/p>\n And from the department of mixed messages, we also got a lovely little certificate signed by the principal saying Tristan was “Star of the Week” for October 2 through 5. I understand from our daycare provider, who has older children at the school, that this is an honour bestowed upon a student by having the certificate hang in the hallway outside the principal’s office for a week, then sent home to the child’s beaming parents. I have no idea of the significance of this honour, whether he was nominated by a panel of his peers, or whether he will be able to add it to his curiculum vitae some day, but Tristan was plenty proud and so am I.<\/p>\n And speaking of honours, one of you lovely peeps have nominated me (or rather, nominated blog) for a Canadian Blog Award <\/a>again this year. I am in great company, with nominating nods – so far – to many of my favourites, including Beanie Baby<\/a>, MUBAR<\/a>, Martinis for Milk<\/a>, Breadcrumbs in the Butter<\/a>, Bub and Pie<\/a>, and a peek inside the fishbowl<\/a>. I’m honoured and touched by your nominations – thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m having a good couple of days. Pardon my enthusiasm, but I had to update you on Tristan’s school foibles. You’ll remember a couple of weeks ago, we got called in for a parent-teacher confab after a mere eight days of school, causing me to believe we should perhaps stop saving for Tristan’s education and … Continue reading “Mixed messages”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ah-me-boys","category-my-15-minutes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}