Yesterday, we had a fabulous visit with Christie and Mark Pickel, the founders of Love, Erin . Their mission: Our family's mission with Love, Erin is to continue to share Erin's love and light to those in need.  Items such as baby wipes, food, school supplies, clothing, and first aid kits fill a Love, Erin tote and are given in memory of Erin. AND the Old Town Library was the recipient of their generosity. We currently have a Donor's Choose ( Gardening: Bringing Reading to Life! ) and an Amazon Wish List for gardening supplies. These wonderful presents are just the supplies we needed to get our gardening project off the ground. I've got a few pix, but hope to add more as they come in! Oh! See that cute little Panda? It's engraved with our name on it! Thank you Christie and Mark for generously sharing Erin's love and passions!

For the last several years, I've written a "what I did on my summer vacation" post. Mainly to show that it's no 3 month vacay. (And 3 months!? Really?) So here goes. Week long training at UNCG for clinical teachers. Had my "read and ride" donors choose grant funded. Went through the TED-X application process. (Accepted btw) PD on Exploring NC Digitally. Thanks to NCSLMA. Worked on campus about 20 days. I lost track. I was in more than I intended. Wrote 2 math books for Carson Dellosa - a 4th and a 5th. This took up the majority of summer. Went to the mountains for a few days with my girlfriends. Attended multiple meetings for school or NCSLMA. Applied for an admin program and scheduled a retirement meeting. The coupling of these two is bizarre, but I'm planning for every contingency. Mwahahaha What I planned but didn't do: Rework my school web page. Practice my Spanish. Plan like a library demon. Read a book a week. I re...

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And it has been fabulous! Classes have gone smoothly. Students have been engaged. I went to an inspiring after school meeting with WFU and Donor's Choose. So why am I pooped!? Speaking of Donor's Choose. These are the computer-related books for The Great Computer Mystery!  We just got some more in yesterday and they haven't been cataloged yet! Can't wait to get them all into the hands of students!  

Please check out my Donor's Choose project, here . It's called My Mom's Ears and My Dad's Nose. I'm asking for resources on heredity for the 5th graders. I would greatly appreciate any help you can give. Any donations made by November 22 will be matched up to $100.  Use the promo code SPARK during checkout to double your donation. Thanks so much for looking at this project for our school and library!