Life with Anders and Kuba : June 2019

Friday, June 21, 2019

Thursday, June 20, 2019

It's has taken ten years at IAA before I got my own office space. Ten years to create a beautiful office. But, just when I got it right, I made the decision to leave my job. Go figure. But here it is, at least one view. It was a great space this past and last year.

I've loved my office. It was a soothing place to be in a high energy school. It had a teal upholstered chair, a bulletin board full of beautiful and important things, shelves chock full of books/and other assorted exciting things like magic hats and wands, button makers, etc. and I had a chalkboard wall. Lots of messages have come and gone on that wall. Hanging above it was a clothesline of all of the IAA t-shirts. Ten years of t-shirts! Each year a new parent would design a shirt, and the parent was always an artist of some sort. Here I am posing, on the last day of the school year, on the last day in my office, last day standing on a chair so I could get a snapshot of those t-shirts and me.

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Johnny Boo - Just for You!

Kuba has the great luck of being friends with Oliver, a boy whose dad is somewhat of a famous cartoonist. His name is James Kochalka. He was Vermont's first Cartoon Laureate. He has a series of books about a little ghost named Johnny Boo. Each morning for the past 2 years (that Kuba has been in Oliver's class) at school, James would draw a Johnny Boo cartoon on the white board. He might have been doing this since Oliver was in kindergarten, but Kuba wasn't in the same class as Oliver until 4th and 5th grade, so he was a recipient of these adorable morning Johnny Boo messages only for 2 years. SO COOL. So lucky. Here's just a sample of them, including the final one on graduation day. I wish we had them all!