We are fortunate that our kids go I great schools and have fantastic teachers. Kira is now going into 7th grade at Brandywine Springs School and Leah is going into 4th grade at Claymont Elementary School. Even though they have great teachers and schools, I have never liked open houses that the teachers have in the beginning of the year for parents of all the children.

Kira was recently cleaning her room and found this picture I drew for Kira (and hid in her desk for her to find the next day) while attending the open house for her class at the beginning of 5th grade. Her teacher was one of her (and our) favorite teachers Ms. Szymanski, who later won Teacher of the Year for the whole state. My dad (Dr. Mervin) used to leave the same type of notes for me when I was a kid. I guess he found the open houses to be uninteresting too!