I remember when I first fell in love. It was at my first job out of college. (Well, my second job really, but I like to block out my first job because it was a disaster. Though I did get really skinny since I didn’t have time to eat. So there was that.) Anyway, at […]
The Start of Some REAL Momentum
Just about a mile down the road from our house, there’s a public elementary school. Not Big’s. It’s one that belongs to a different school district. One that doesn’t have parents holding fundraisers that result in hundreds of thousands of dollars for school supplies, art and music teachers, and more. One that I’d heard was […]
A Little Something You Can Do For a Teacher
I don’t know about you, but at the beginning of the school year, my son got a very specific list of school supplies that he’d need for the year. It included things like glue sticks, markers, and colored pencils — you know, the stuff of 1st graders’ dreams. Well, come Back-to-School Night, Big’s teacher had […]
Celebrating Teachers with Office Depot’s REAL Change
Disclosure: I am an Office Depot REAL Change blog ambassador. This post is part of a campaign where I was compensated for my time. To learn more about REAL Change, visit their website. After I graduated from college, I lived with two good friends who were in a teaching Master’s program at UCLA. As I […]
Won’t Back Down, A Mantra for Moms
It’s week two of school for Big. Which means I’ve been asked for money. A lot of it. I’ve been asked for time. A lot of it. And I’ve been asked for supplies. A fair amount of them. Yes, he goes to a public school—a phenomenal one—but that’s because we live in a community where […]