There is a sheet posted in our classroom listing the birthdays for the month among the “regulars”.  This month it looks like this . . .

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Thankfully, my favorite canine can’t read – because today is Zoe’s fifth birthday and she isn’t listed!  But she still got to have a special visit.

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Debbie Cosenza was having a class in the back room and Zoe got to beg a piece of pound cake from Karen.  And yes, that big ski book Karen is sporting serves a purpose – two weeks ago she bent over to pick something up and tore a calf muscle (ouch – hurts just to type it).  I’m told that Chris Mach was behind her when it happened and the “pop” was loud enough to scare her.

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So Karen is on “light duty” for a few weeks – but that didn’t stop her from taking Debbie’s Pan Pastels Workshop.  See, we have gotten talented by osmosis – this is the project she was working on today!