During the last week or so you've probably been on spring break - that week long vacation from school that usually occurs around Easter.
During elementary school, I didn't have spring break! We usually just got a day or two off of school around Easter, typically Good Friday or the Monday after.
When I was in high school, my school started doing spring break. I kind of liked having the break from homework and classes, but after a couple of days I always missed my friends.
In college, we always had spring break. For me, it was a great chance to catch up (and even get ahead) on schoolwork I had to do. That made the rest of the school year easier and gave me more time to have fun once all of my friends got back to college!
How did/are you spend/ing your spring break?
I have created this site so that my son, Kieran Edward Bignell, will be able to easily find me, his father, Rob Bignell, and so that he will know that I love him, that I always have, and that I always will. Against our wishes, we have been torn from one another's lives and kept apart, separated by distance and time. But one day, Kieran will seek me. Kieran - I am here for you. Come to me.
Showing posts with label spring break. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spring break. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Saturday, March 23, 2013
My email to you for March 23, 2013
Here
is my email from March 23, 2013, just in case you do not receive it.
Hi Kieran!
How are you today? I love and miss and very much.
The good news is we get to see one another again in just six days on March 29!
I can’t wait. Grandma and Grandpa and Uncle Chris and Aunt Susie have some
Easter presents for you, and of course I’ll be bringing some surprises, too!
Did you have Spring Break this past week or do you go on it
next week? Your cousins Bryan and Rebekah were on Spring Break this past week.
While getting a week off of school was nice when I was a boy, it also got boring
real fast for me! I always missed my friends and learning about new stuff.
Before going home on Spring Break, I always made sure I brought home lots of
books from the library!
Do you get to go to the library and check out books? I miss
not being able to go to the library with you. When we were together in
Lancaster, we went to storytimes at the library and always checked out books to
read at home. Some days we read 10 books! Some days you liked a book so much
that we read just that book 10 times!
Easter is coming up soon. What do you plan to do for the
Easter holiday? I think I mentioned in my last email that you I was eating at
Grandma and Grandpa’s house, where Uncle Chris, Aunt Susie, your cousins Bryan
and Rebekah, and Aunt Susie and Uncle Mark will be getting together for Easter
dinner and the afternoon. We are having ham and prime rib for dinner. Yummy!
I don’t believe you’ve ever met Aunt Sandy and Uncle Mark
(If you did, you were just a baby at the time). Aunt Sandy is Grandma’s sister.
They are very nice and have a big house in Stillwater. They also have a dog, a
very old black and white border collie. They have seen pictures of you, I’ve
told them lots of great stories about you, and they can’t wait to meet you!
In addition to editing and writing books, I have taken up
snowshoeing! As you know, I like to hike, yet hiking in the snow is too
difficult – but it’s not if you have snowshoes! You then can walk almost
anywhere. Snowshoeing does take a lot of energy at first, though, but seeing
new things outdoors is a lot of fun – and so is the steaming cup of hot
chocolate you enjoy afterwards when you go back inside! Would you like to go
snowshoeing one day?
Have you read any good books lately? I have. It was called “Ruthie
and the (Not So) Teeny Tiny Lie,” by Laura Rankin. It was about a little girl
name Ruthie who finds a teeny tiny toy on the school playground. Even though
it’s not her toy, she tells everyone it is and then tells more lies so she can
keep it for herself! Will she get caught lying? You will have to read the book
and find out! I bet you can find it at your school or city library.
Well, that is all for now. You have a good week, and I will
see you Friday afternoon!
Love,
Dad
Saturday, March 16, 2013
My email to you for March 16, 2013
Here is my email to you for March 16, 2013, just in case you
don’t receive it:
Hi Kieran,
How are you today? I hope you’re doing well. I’d doing fine,
though I miss you very much.
How is school going? I did not receive your email to me last
week, so I did not get to hear from you how you are doing in kindergarten. Please
have your mother resend the email to me so I can catch up on your schooling.
Tomorrow (Sunday, March 17), you will have to make sure you
wear green. Why? Because it’s St. Patrick’s Day! It is a very important day for
people who are Irish. Though we’re not Irish, we still celebrate the holiday
out of respect to those who are and because it’s a lot of fun!
Do you get spring break at your school? The school where
your cousins Rebekah and Bryan go has spring break in just another week. During
spring break, they get the whole week off from school! Schools often have
spring break so that parents can take their children on vacation, and then the
kids don’t have to miss any school.
If you could go on vacation, where would you go? Some people
travel to lots of fun places like Disneyworld in Florida (We used to go to
Disneyland in California.). Other families travel to scenic or historical
places where they can enjoy nature or learn about our past. Places like that
include a national park, such as the Grand Canyon in Arizona, or Washington,
D.C., our nation’s capital. Other families don’t travel at all but spend their
vacation in their own house, enjoying their time together playing games and
watching movies and maybe going to fun places that are nearby, like a mall.
After St. Patrick’s Day and spring break comes Easter on
March 31. Do you have big plans for Easter, like going to an egg hunt or maybe
out to eat for Easter dinner? I am going to Grandma and Grandpa Bignell’s for
Easter. Your Uncle Chris, Aunt Suzie, cousins Bryan and Rebekah, Aunt Sandy and
Uncle Mark all will be there. We are having ham and prime rib for dinner. All of
us wish you could be there with us for Easter sinenr.
There sure is a lot of snow on the ground – much more than
we had in California! Do you like playing in the snow? Have you made a snowman
or snow angels yet? Have you gone sledding? When I was a little boy your age, I
always liked to go sledding down snow-covered hills and then have hot chocolate
afterward. You might remember that we went up into the mountains near our house
in Lancaster and went sledding and had hot chocolate afterward – it was the
first time you ever had hot chocolate, and you loved it! You had so much fun
going up and down and down the hills and drank so much hot chocolate that you
slept the whole drive back to our house.
Once the snow starts to melt in a couple of weeks, the wind
will start to pick up as spring arrives. That makes for great kite-flying
weather. Would you like to fly a kite?
Well, that is all for now. I love and miss you very much and
can’t wait to see you again on March 29!
Love,
Dad
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