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“You may go to hell, I will go to Texas.” ~ Davy Crockett

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I can’t think of a better saying than that, for the name of this quilt that I made yesterday:

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This is for our friend’s son, who graduates from high school in May.  I wasn’t married to Dr. Man-Mom yet, so I didn’t know him when he was born … which means he didn’t get a baby quilt from me (though his younger brother did).  So, I made him a graduation quilt.  I hope he likes it – they’re a family of history buffs, and Texans, of course.

In other news, DD#1’s DI team took THIRD at the district contest!  We were all very excited for her, and she’s mighty proud of herself and her team, too! 

She said to me, in awe, “Mom!  I got a medal!”

As I understand it, DI has been around for 21 years…but, this is the first year that the school they attend offered it as an elective class.  I think they deserve a great big attaboy/girl!

Destination ImagiNation

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DI for short.  Have you heard of it?  It’s a new class elective (new to the girls’ school) that our seventh-grader is taking, and she absolutely LOVES the class!

Here’s the official word on what it is.

This morning, just about the time I was falling into a very deep sleep, Dr. Man-Mom and DD#1 were getting up, as she had to be at school at 6 am, to leave for their DI competition on the other side of San Antonio.   And they won’t get back until around 11 pm this evening.

Oy, she’ll be a barrel of laughs tomorrow!

Anyways, we went to school and watched their team practice this past week.

Dr. Man-Mom said to me, at dinner that night, that he was absolutely clueless as to what he actually saw.

I giggled.

Dr. Man-Mom has a PhD, you see.  He is a logical thinker, a left-brainer, if you will.  DI, on the other hand, is for those who use their right brains most of the time.  Or, to put it as DD#1 said to me, she was too creative to clean her room!

I, too, am pretty much a visual-thinker.  It’s the act, not the process to get there, that’s important to me.

With this class and contest, the kids are given a set of challenges to overcome.  It’s about leadership, creativity, critical thinking and teamwork.  It’s taking what you know and applying it to the challenge, to produce a final outcome – which is a short, 5 minute play. 

As I explained that to Dr. Man-Mom, I told him it was much like the FFA team leadership contests that he competed in when he was in high school.  Except, of course, the manure in FFA is probably not piled as high.

Dad, Ph.D.

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“Dad, what are all of the oceans?” the manly man asked of his over-educated father at lunch yesterday.

“Well son, let’s see,” JD responded, “there’s the Arctic and the Antarctic (aka Southern), the Pacific and the Atlantic.  I think that’s all.”

“ummmm, Dad?  What about the Indian Ocean?”

{queue the mom giggling}