I will be leaving this school district after the end of this school year!! Retirement is an option!! That is what Claudia wants me to do--totally retire from everything--maybe some part time work at the agency we both work for. This way I can be the work-at-home daddy for our little Gabe.(Last time I did something like this, I found myself saying to Carolyn and Stephen, "You just wait 'til your mother gets home!!! You are in big trouble!!!")
We shall see what is coming between now and the end of the school year, but early retirement looks like a way to get out of the public education mess in this state. The superintendent of public instruction and the legislature appear to be buying into measures that will devastate public education and its providers.
But going on with the family, Gabe is growing and talking more and more and learning to read!! He is scheduled to enter Kindergarten next year. He will be six this summer.

And what about Carolyn's little baby? Lilly is doing well and has gained weight. She is now 10 pounds. How could there be any baby any cuter than this?! We just can't figure out why she keeps throwing up so much of her formula. Claudia and I, having experience in our family with these things, are thinking this is a milk all
ergy. But she throws up the soy formula too?!
Oh Well--she is still darling!

