{"id":11300,"date":"2015-09-25T08:33:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T14:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=11300"},"modified":"2024-02-20T10:59:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T16:59:28","slug":"show-and-tell-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/show-and-tell-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Show and Tell"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We’ve given our hearts to many projects this week. Mark and Richard spent every evening and all day one day\u00a0working on a pinewood derby car.\u00a0I once went to a fireside by Noelle Picus-Pace where she talked about coming in 4th place a the Olympics and how\u00a0you almost want any place but 4th. That’s\u00a0the situation that Richard and Mark faced last night. Mark didn’t understand how the race was decided, and knowing that he had won all of his races, he thought he had won first place. We tried to explain that it was all about time, but in his mind, he was going to win the grand prize. He was brave, but I watched his heart break\u00a0when his name wasn’t read. I watched his heart break over and over as he tried to understand what had happened. I know it’s good for kids to learn to cope with disappointment, but it hurts to watch it.<\/p>\n

On a lighter note, Timothy played some great baseball this week and he and a partner made a model of an atom. I have never seen students take the electron cloud so literally, but I like it.<\/p>\n

And I made quilt squares. I haven’t perfected the art of sewing a “scant” 1\/4 inch seam, so 7 of my 9 squares are too small. Surprisingly, I am not too flummoxed about this. I am leaning toward just starting over rather than reworking seven more squares. It’s a good project for me, because the seams are just a few inches and I can step away and come back.\u00a0Instead of long stretches of time, I have\u00a0many 15-minute intervals of time in my days. I have a sewing room, so I can walk in and out of my project without having to clean up.<\/p>\n

The project room for the rest of the family is the kitchen, and it’s a big mess. Someday I will miss the projects strewn all over the hearth, island, table, and computer desk, but today I am just getting up the courage to face it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve given our hearts to many projects this week. Mark and Richard spent every evening and all day one day\u00a0working on a pinewood derby car.\u00a0I once went to a fireside by Noelle Picus-Pace where she talked about coming in 4th place a the Olympics and how\u00a0you almost want any place but 4th. That’s\u00a0the situation that … Continue reading Show and Tell<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,26,20,4,44,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventurous-kids","category-family-time","category-fatherhood","category-life-according-to-angela","category-motherhood","category-quilts","category-richards-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11307,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11300\/revisions\/11307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}