We just finished up our high stakes state testing last Thursday.  During that time, I had a mixed group of kids, who weren’t testing for various reasons.  So we did origami!  One student, O from Israel, really had fun with her boxes, all 14 of them!

Here is the beautiful result (with the biggest and smallest boxes to help with the perspective:

Isn’t it beautiful?  The largest square was 9 1/2 inches and the smallest just a square inch!

On Friday night, I went to my friend Dee’s bridal shower.  I’m so excited for her.  She’s actually marrying a guy I went to college with but I had absolutely nothing to do with them getting together.  I haven’t even seen Tom since college!  I also had fun with her box!

These are just for fun:  I need to host some kind of dinner party where the curly chives can play the starring role:

P.S. Did you know that Rachel and Drew love us the best?

(Keep in mind who addressed the envelopes.)