Sean, you should run away from cleaning and come have dinner with us. I say this without having a clue if plans have been made for dinner. My mom probably is cooking. Hm. Maybe I should ask her. Anyway, my point is that I miss you and Drew is home and we'd both love to see you.

I appear to be rambling.

I'm imagining those old-skool commercials for cleaning products where they'd use the Good Product on one side and the Lesser Product on the other, straight down the middle.

This is what happened when I first got a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser. My house was full of stains and marks, and I had a new toy to try on all of them! By the end of the day, my house was full of stains and marks, each of which had a clean spot in the middle.

No -- it just means your coolant is at a low temperature, which is normal after it has just sat around all night. The light turns off as soon as the coolant warms up to a temp in the accepted range. It's fine.

Thanks.

this is the knitting needle holder from this morning: (closed) [link] (open) [link]

Yeah, watch your actual temperature to make sure you`re not overheating, and if this is so, you`re probably fine. Ours does that, kinda, and also when we go around corners. But I think we do have a slow coolant leak, so we keep an eye on the level, which is also pretty easy to do. Or, if you`re skittish, have them check next time you get an oil change.

Can`t see it, Sox and I really want to. Can you add me as a contact? I`m fatou_dust on flickr.

added Liese!

to me, another way of looking at this is that you are transitioning earlier instead of later. Either way, she has to do it.

This is a really good point - transitioning her now means you don't have to do it when she starts kindergarten, right?

One of my students informed me after class today that the way I was teaching something isn't the best way to teach it, because the way he learned it when he took this class in high school was better. (He showed me the way he learned it. It makes things much more complicated than they need to be, and, once we discussed some of the examples some more, I realized that he didn't actually understand it as well as he thought he did -- he could do everything perfectly on paper, but really couldn't connect the concepts to the notation.)

transitioning her now means you don't have to do it when she starts kindergarten, right?

Presuming she gets into that school. I'm not really sure what our odds are on that, whether it's an automatic in (as they do for siblings), or whether it just gives us an extra weighting for the lottery.

As much as she loves her current school and teachers, I do try to remember that I barely remember anything about my preschool years, and barely remember kindergarten. Also, Emmett has only the haziest memories of preschool and kindergarten.

Whereas his first grade is vivid in part because it was part of a continuity at the same school with the rest of his elementary school years.

Sean, you should run away from cleaning and come have dinner with us. I say this without having a clue if plans have been made for dinner. My mom probably is cooking. Hm. Maybe I should ask her. Anyway, my point is that I miss you and Drew is home and we'd both love to see you.

I told Drew on the phone I already have plans tonight, but I miss you guys too, so let's do dinner in the next few days or something. My schedule is pretty flexible right now.