The Computer Teacher from the Black Lagoon Review | #readingrocks

I'm not sure if it's all schools or just Barbers Hill, but Hawk has this thing called "Reading Rocks", and they have to read 50 books in a certain amount of time to be able to go to a "Reading Rocks" party.  It's designed to get kids used to, and enjoy, reading books with their family members. This time, we dropped the ball.  Even though Hawk has read numerous books in the last couple of months, we haven't really thought about writing them down.  It wasn't until the night before last that we realized that he only had like eight…
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Phone call from principal made my heart drop!

As a mom of four, I want nothing else than to see my kids to well and succeed in school and life.  It's often a struggle for the baby of the family to become the big brother, so we were really worried about how well Hawk would do when he started school this year. Surprisingly enough, he has been doing SO well.  My little lazy, whiny, snaggle-toothed, mama's boy has amazed us all year long. At the last parent/teacher conference, his teacher told Andy that he's already exceeded all of the expectations for Kindergarten for the year (and it was…
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Why Hawk melted down when he checked the mail! #kids #bills

Yesterday, Andy asked Hawk to check the mail.  When he came in, Andy told him there was a "bill", and Hawk grabbed it and really wanted it.  When Andy asked for it back, he told him "you don't have money to pay it," and Hawk got so upset.  We let him have it and open it up, and Andy looks at it and said, "You definitely don't have $17,000!" Hawk started bawling.  Hysterically. This went on for about 15 minutes.  Finally, when he calmed down enough to tell us what was wrong, he said, "I don't have that much money!! …
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