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After trick or treating on October 31, 2015, we headed straight to the airport for our flight from New York to the Philippines. At the time Olive had just turned 4, and Charlie was about to turn 6; now Olive is 10 and Charlie is turning 12 in December. Olive has spent 60% of her life […]

The girls will be heading into PK-3 in just a couple of weeks and we’ve made the decision to split them into separate classrooms. I’m really not sure if this will be the right decision for the girls or not, and I figure it may help me to get my thoughts down as to why […]

Hi Hive! It’s been a while since I updated you on our lives. A fuller Tiger-Family-Catchup is in the works, but thought I’d first talk about our decision to do the opposite of red-shirting. K is in 1st grade now, and rocking it! His birthday is just after our district’s cutoff (September 1st), and falls […]

At the beginning of the school year we were encountering some homework struggles with BeBe, but not the usual issue of trying to get your kiddo to sit and do the work. BeBe was the opposite. She finished her homework quickly and correctly but didn’t want to turn in her packet with eraser marks. We […]

Ace and I have been participating in his preschool co-op for one year this August! It has been quite a wild ride, with venue changes, family changes, and rule changes. However, one thing that has stayed consistent, despite the heat, the cold, or the desert monsoon rain, is that we practice the outdoor classroom. For […]

In our community there are several different private, charter and public school options. As soon as we moved here last year we had to really consider where we would put our oldest in school because there are so many options, all of which seem great. We had never really looked into private school very much […]

It didn’t happen on the first day of school. Despite the rain and the general chaos of getting the kids up and out of the house, we made it to school on time, albeit just as the bell was ringing. I made a quick stop at the kindergarten parents’ cheers and tears breakfast, said hello […]