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Monday, August 30, 2010

ALEXIS

DOGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SURREY, BRITISH COLUMBIA



Alexis is now enrolled in the third grade at Dogwood. Her first day of school is next Tuesday.She would start today if she could...she's very anxious to be with other kids.

I also signed her up for before and after school care. Trudy, the director is super sweet and made Alexis feel very welcome.











Alexis still has the moves. She kept this handstand up for a full minute.

" What if I should fall right through the center of the Earth...oh, and come out the other side where people walk upside down" Alice in Wonderland




Hanging off the monkey bars at the Dogwood Park playground









After my wimpy attempt at pushing her on the merry-go-round Alexis decided she could go faster if she did it herself





















Just swingin















Alexis prefers an upside down view of the world
















A striking pose from the top of the jungle jim







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In politically correct language I am called a non-traditional student or,as my mother would say, a late-bloomer. For twenty years I was a stay-at-home/home-schooling mom but surprise.. kids grow up. When my son asked me what I was going to do after he left home I told him I was sure it would involve crates of Kleenex, junk food, and a lot of self pity. He suggested college instead and I took him up on it. I graduated in Dec. 09 with a BA in Criminal Justice/Corrections from Park University in Parkville, Mo. Through internships that brought me into contact with both the victims and offenders of violent crime, I have acquired a passion to assist each in addressing issues of accountability and healing through the restorative process of victim-offender mediation. As a 2010-2011 Canada-U.S. Student Fulbright recipient I will travel this fall with my husband and granddaughter, to British Columbia where I will be attending Simon Fraser University's Graduate School of Criminology. With a superb symmetry, Mother, arbitrator of children’s squabbles has progressed to victim-offender mediator.