After 18 months of renovation, the Foss Waterway Seaport museum reopens to the public, this Saturday, May 11th. Event Coordinator Earla Harding was kind enough to give  us a sneak peak yesterday of the newly renovated facility. 

The Washington State House Education Committee will be meeting at 1:30 today, a number of education bills will be considered including a bill that would assign letter grades to schools (SB 5328) and a bill that would allow the state to take over persistently low performing schools. (SB 5329)

It's 2012 mamas, and we made it through another school year. Summer kind of snuck up on me this year, possibly because it is 63 degrees outside. (I think weather.com is being generous.) It occurred to me last night that allowing the children to stay in their rooms and play Minecraft until they resemble Jell-o is probably not an acceptable plan for the Summer.

Yes, I skipped a day.  I came back from the union's community forum at United Methodist church last night, deeply depressed about the prospects for settlement.  Within a few hours, the Tacoma Education Association had posted on their Facebook page that the district walked out of negotiations and canceled today's session.  There really didn't seem to be anything to say other than "gee, looks like school's not starting any time soon."