Maybe Christmas Doesn’t Come From a Store

Maybe Christmas Doesn’t Come From a Store

Dr. Seuss was right of course. We all know it, even if we did scramble to make sure all our store-bought presents arrived on time and were wrapped by Christmas Eve.  But some of the most thoughtful gifts don’t come from a store.One of my students gave me an...
A Holiday Greeting Card for You

A Holiday Greeting Card for You

Happy Holidays to all my blogging friends!If I haven’t been to your blog this week, please forgive me. This is the longest teaching week of the year, and the children’s minds are GONE.  I may have taught the Battles of Lexington and Concord and the...

A Slice of Salerni Life 2011

I’ve been doing family skits as a Christmas newsletter since 2002, when the girls were ages 2 and 5.  It’s just a yearly peek inside the Salerni house, and here’s the most recent:A SLICE OF SALERNI LIFE 2011 (The Tenth Edition)DINNER...

This Is Not What I Intended to Write

I attempted to write two or three different blog posts yesterday and didn’t get more than a few sentences into any of them before deleting.  I was thinking of just posting “I got nothin’ for ya” and being done with it, when I remembered...