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 The weekend before Valentine’s Day found not one but three boys buzzing their heads and my house with two boys dying their hair bright pink!  The trend at the middle school recently is for boys to have longer, shaggy hair but Danny’s hair was driving him crazy. When he realized it was interfering with his ability to see while playing basketball he decided to go drastic and get a buzz… and then bleach it, and then dye bright pink hearts on it for Valentine’s Day. After school on Friday I took him and his new crush plus another friend to Sally’s Beauty Supply. Although they had consulted with the art teacher first it was pretty obvious none of us knew what we were doing and had to ask for help. Soon this is what my bathroom looked like: It was quite the adventure with lots of being nervous combined with plenty of laughter. The bleach job turned out orangish so Danny decided to dye all his hair pink. Then Z decided to dye his recently buzzed hair pink as well. Then two of Natali...

 It was a blast to watch Danny play in the annual staff vs. student basketball game.  I don’t have the guts to go out there and play!  The staff won, which seems to be the tradition but since C dislocated his arm on Sunday they let him referee the game, which was different for sure.  I’m so grateful I work at the middle school so that I could be there.  I am going to miss having my boy here when he’s off to high school next year. It was finally my turn to watch Kate’s new club team play volleyball!  Even though I had never been to this facility before it felt familiar because it is so close to the zoo and nature museum. These girls had a packed schedule with working the table (turns out Kate is the team table captain, which I didn’t know until I heard the coach say it), played two games, worked the table again and then played two more games. (We left the house at about 6:15pm and got home around 4pm.) The first game was really fun with our team winning pret...