Everything was icy this morning. It was nice in the house though because we turned on the furnace. I actually exercised a bit before I put my hands on any technology so I was pretty proud of myself. Wayne and I had parent/teacher conferences for Natale at 09:00 so we both got ready and walked down to the school. Natale had wanted to join us but he stayed up too late. I warned him that I wouldn’t be waking him since he’s nearly 15 and should be able to get himself up. He wasn’t. Meetings were first come, first served but it all went pretty smoothly. He had great reports from all of his teachers. We heard the fairly typical, “He is very social and gets distracted often but re-directs pretty well.” All of his teachers talked about how kind, loving, helpful and sensitive he is. Most mentioned that other students look up to him and that he is an influencer. We were very pleased all around.
We came back home and I read about Django form validation. Super exciting stuff I tell ya. I also chatted with other Ascenders on IRC. I’m pretty sure Amanda and I checked our email a billion times today hoping for something from Urban Airship.
Wayne and I had to run out and look at an apartment for some friends who are moving here very soon. It was in NE Portland so we drove out there and wow, they got a lot more snow, frozen rain, hail, whatever than we did because everything still had a pretty decent layer. The apartment is small but not bad at all. We took some pictures and then headed to Trader Joe’s. We tried to do our shopping quickly because we had parent/teacher conferences for Jayde soon and we were pretty far from the school.
We headed to the school and of course got stuck in traffic. We ended up getting there about 10 minutes late but it seemed they were running behind anyway. Jayde was already there waiting for us so we went from teacher to teacher and got the best reports. Her grades are great, she is kind, respectful, helpful. Everyone said she is a pleasure to have in class. The thing she needed to work on the most was keeping her organizer filled out for each class but that was really about it. We were happy again!
We worried a lot about moving them to Portland at such critical ages but they have done better than we could have dreamed. Natale really struggled socially in Arizona and Jayde had a very difficult time keeping her grades up but they are both thriving here. Whew!
We came home and decided to have Handsome Pizza for dinner before heading to Alice and Jason’s for a movie. Jason was feeling much better after being sick for an entire week so that was good. Handsome made us our usual kale, garlic, onion with red sauce pizza which is amazing and also made a roasted buttercup squash, pepita and spicy pepper pizza. Soooo good! I’m sure going to miss them when they have to move! I’m still holding out hope they will find a nearby space though.
Andrew made a bunch of popcorn before we headed across the street. We got all settled in the basement theater and watch Scott Pilgrim. I had forgotten what a great movie it was. Alice and Jason hadn’t seen it but they loved it.
Today I learned about Zion Curtains and Hygge.