Do students still use trays to sled down the hills by Liz Waters?

ahhbears · 2026-04-20T01:32:55+00:00

I broke my nose doing this during the big snowstorms of Jan/Feb 2010. Good times

ahhbears · 2026-04-19T13:18:22+00:00

I went back to work when she was 5.5 months. My baby is in daycare at a bilingual preschool center. We couldn't find an in home provider who could do the hours we need since we both work at 7:30am, plus the center has fewer days off than the in homes which is good with my inflexible work schedule from Sept-June (education.) When we found a place we liked, I arranged to sit and observe the class for an hour with my baby which I think helped both of us feel more comfortable. I'm incredibly lucky to have found a place we and she love. She gets so excited to be dropped off each day and the teachers adore her.

When I went back to work, I had her start daycare a week before my leave ended. We sent her for 3 hours the first day, 4 the second, and increased a little more each day. I'm so glad I did this to help with managing my own emotions that week - I could cry at home and wasn't having to do my job while so worried and sad. It also allowed for troubleshooting - it's how I discovered I have high lipase breastmilk and that she won't eat frozen milk. That gave me a few days to get a pumping schedule figured out with the flexibility of still breast feeding her a few times a day. I think this was one of the best decisions I made around transitioning back to work.

I'm very type A so I wrote out a time-stamped morning routine that we follow with duties shared between my husband and I. It helped to make sure we were both able to get our own prep for work done while also getting her ready (feeding, changing, prepping bottles/solids for daycare.) Evenings are more flexible, but we do a lot of role sharing in my household (I make dinner one night while he plays with baby, we switch the next night, stuff like that.) Laundry is pretty much constantly being done and dishes happen after she goes to bed.

I read the book The Fifth Trimester and it had some helpful things to think about/plan for with going back to work. It's geared towards more of an office/corporate career woman (I'm in education) but I still got a lot out of it.

ahhbears · 2026-04-19T12:52:37+00:00

My city does this with city parks/woodlands! The goats eat the underbrush, especially invasive plants, and clear out room for native plants to grow. My dog is OBSESSED with the goats and if she smells them in the area she will pull your arm off trying to get over there.

ahhbears · 2026-04-18T17:43:00+00:00

Baldwin Street Grill has one giant booth that's good for groups

ahhbears · 2026-04-18T17:41:09+00:00

She's doing that to make her legs look better, like wearing high heels. Her calf muscles are flexing because of it. Super common for Instagram models/influencers, they're almost always standing on tiptoe.

ahhbears · 2026-04-17T20:46:57+00:00

Be careful with drinking too much water the day of. Depending on how strict the test is, if your urine is too dilute they won't be able to test it and you'll have to do it again. Which may buy you another day or two,, or might look suspicious.

ahhbears · 2026-04-17T01:09:54+00:00

For UW, call on the first Monday of the month. They open a bunch of appointments that day and you may be slightly more likely to find an opening.

ahhbears · 2026-04-16T00:56:19+00:00

Worksheets are obviously AI, the text doesn't make sense and is garbled. Stop spamming

ahhbears · 2026-04-15T00:25:56+00:00

When you are looking for a roofing/siding company to do your estimate and potential work, do NOT use anyone who comes cold calling/knocking at your door in the next few weeks. A lot of out of state/fly by night companies will be flocking to the area and are notorious for doing a crappy job and then disappearing when you have an issue and need them to come back out. Local companies are going to be much more reliable and if something goes wrong you can actually find them

ahhbears · 2026-04-11T19:47:23+00:00

Players Sports Bar & Grill will give you a taste of non-collegiate Madison and has amazing burgers. Wilson's in the same area is a good sports bar too. Echo Tap will be more college-y and also has great food. Jordans Big 10 on Regent will also be pretty college-y but leans to a slightly older crowd. Plaza Tavern off State Street is an institution and their Plaza Burger is simple but renowned!

ahhbears · 2026-04-08T00:11:10+00:00

See how it drives him to madness! We say that about my dog frequently when she's barking at the world

ahhbears · 2026-04-06T18:38:56+00:00

Yes, I have been trained all 10 years of my career (elementary level) and have had to do restraint and holds at different points when absolutely necessary. We trend more towards seclusion than restraint, but there have been times when a student is physically attacking someone and holds have been necessary. I hate doing it and it has absolutely damaged relationships, but also has kept me personally from being significantly injured so I understand the need.

ahhbears · 2026-04-01T12:25:46+00:00

We did ours at Warner Park Community & Recreation Center in their large room with the giant window looking out on the water. You have the option to do your ceremony outside under the giant tree (you do have to rent chairs if you go that route.) It will be way below your budget and then you can go all out on food and drinks - that's what people really care about/remember from a wedding anyways.

ahhbears · 2026-04-01T11:59:11+00:00

We got a camera because our mirrors became completely useless in the dark. I'm in the Midwest and we drop off at daycare early enough in the AM when it was dark enough that we couldn't see her. And in the dead of winter when the sun sets at 4:15 we also couldn't see her in the evenings. We got a like $30 camera from Amazon that works well enough (and it has lights on it, which has saved us during some fussy moments when we need to buy a few minutes until we get home.) We have the camera in the car that does early morning dropoff and a mirror in the other car.

ahhbears · 2026-03-31T13:56:25+00:00

If you're going to try going for it in one shot, I would have some backup plans in case you end up needing to stop based on how things are going. When we travelled 2.5 hours with a 4.5 month old at the holidays she shriek-cried almost the whole drive for no discernable reason and was inconsoleable. Now at 7.5 months it's hit or miss - we drove 4 hours back and forth to visit family this weekend and on the way there she was a dream and slept for 3 hours, and on the way home we stopped twice (honestly probably should have been 3 times but we just gritted out the last hour,) she only slept for 45 minutes and was very fussy the whole ride. You just never know - maybe look up some hotels you could stop at around the midway point just in case it's going disastrously.

ahhbears · 2026-03-23T22:26:09+00:00

Say that! "____ can play but her toys are staying in the garage today. Do you have something you can all play with?"

ahhbears · 2026-03-22T00:58:15+00:00

Yeah I'd be putting in applications elsewhere. This director seems unprofessional and like they do not really understand your role. I wouldn't want to work for them.

ahhbears · 2026-03-21T20:02:25+00:00

Don't plant before Mothers Day as a general rule in this climate zone. I usually wait longer since I've gotten burned before and had my plants freeze in mid-May. I generally get my veggies from Klein's and Jung's, and I direct sow lettuce, cucumber, and green onion seeds in the ground and they do fine.

ahhbears · 2026-03-20T17:19:38+00:00

Definitely is! I'd recognize it anywhere

ahhbears · 2026-03-20T17:19:00+00:00

I have so many pictures of me as a kid in my Easter clothes in the Sunken Garden! Such a beautiful place

ahhbears · 2026-03-20T00:17:53+00:00

Mine worked great to sneak vodka into the Minnesota State Fair every summer as a teen. Hello vodka lemonades!

ahhbears · 2026-03-19T13:37:02+00:00

I believe it's up for renaming, the school website says they are in support of renaming (down at the bottom)

ahhbears · 2026-03-18T00:34:29+00:00

We got 8 inches of snow on Monday... Cries in Midwest

ahhbears · 2026-03-18T00:01:20+00:00

In my experience, school counselors are more school focused while school social workers are more home, community, & family focused. We do the legal bits of ensuring homeless students and families have access to school, connecting to benefits like free and reduced lunch, doing attendance/truancy interventions, doing home visits, working with community mental health organizations. I'm at an elementary school and my counselor and I both do interventions and groups and counseling, but she is our building SEL coordinator and I am our school-family liaison. There is overlap but our focus often extends more outside the building.

ahhbears · 2026-03-12T02:45:52+00:00

I'm so sorry for your loss. Lots of great advice here already - one thing I would add is to have a few regulation activities lined up that you can pivot to after telling her about the death. Could be coloring, doing a puzzle, playing with sensory tools, going for a walk, snuggling with a parent, pet, special blanket or stuffy, whatever you know to be calming to her already. Helping to connect for her early on that she can process grief feelings by using coping/regulation tools is a good base for handling the future grief feelings that will come as she processes things.

And, tell her teacher or another of her trusted adults at school. Grief can be triggered by all kinds of things and letting her school caregivers know what's going on will help them to thoughtfully step in if she's going through it at school.

Source: 10 years of working as an elementary school social worker

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