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This summer, we worked on finishing projects in our new home to make it feel more like home! I took a class, that I'm grateful for, but it sucked away my summer! When I wasn't studying, I spent as much time with my family as possible. We went to Austin for a week and a half to visit family, went to a cave, spent time with family here in Maryland, went to a monster truck show, swam as much as we could, went to a wedding, and it all FLEW by!

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This summer, I spent a week in Orlando with Misty Rice at the National Get Your Teach On Conference learning all about the importance of Social Emotional Learning and strategies to promote it in my classroom! We spent a day at Epcot and enjoyed some pool time as well. When I returned, I spent the rest of the summer soaking in my kiddos (when they would let me ;) ). My son is a senior this year so this technically was his last summer as a K-12 student. We took our annual trip to the Outer Banks of North Carolina with our "framily" and took care of lots of house projects.

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As I said in the Staff Update, I traveled all over Italy! :) Out of the three major cities we visited, Venice was by far my favorite! It was other-worldly and absolutely beautiful traveling around the canals of the city! Here is a picture of me and my husband, Michael, visiting the main square, Piazza San Marco.