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We had a long Spring Break. What did you do with the week off from school?

 

Monday was the last day of Spring Break for MCPS, the week-long hiatus from school before pushing through that last quarter of school.  

(I didn't even realize the 3rd quarter was over before my middle school-er mentioned checking her grades on EdLine - don't you love EdLine, parents?)

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So what did you do for Spring Break? Get away or enjoy a stay-cation?  

We split our time between Silver Spring and the Eastern Shore.  And we did nothing in either place, it was great.  We slept in, we ate breakfast around 11 am, went to a movie (not Hunger Games because I still haven't read the book yet), played some tennis, went shopping.  The kids ran around outside, rollerskated, played basketball and their own brand of hide-and-seek.

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My littlest two got new bikes and my 1st grader got a new library card (she was excited, and I was excited that she was excited because I remember many days as a kid wandering over to the library to pick up a stack of books.  I do wish that we lived closer so the kids could get there on their own when they wanted to).  I even started 2 books - The Global Achievement Gap, MCPS' Superintendent's book discussion pick for this month, and The Weird Sisters, about 3 sisters who, all named after Shakespearean heroines, don't really care for each other as grown woman but all end up back home as their mother is battling with cancer.  We ended the week with a big family dinner for the Easter holiday.

I know I was supposed to take the kids to a museum or enroll them in spring break camp some where.  I maybe should've done something more constructive with them or had a better structured schedule.  But, like many families, we spend most days running from here to there, dropping off, picking up, scrambling for dinner, eating in the car, finishing homework while waiting for someone to practice something.  Just a lazy week without a schedule or deadlines was a good spring refresher.  

Happy Spring! 

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