I can't believe that kindergarten is a page in Addison's history book. He's growing up too fast. For kindergarten graduation we got to go to his school and hear his class sing, have cake, and watch a slideshow from the year. Addison's class chose to sing the October song, and it was so cute. The class was about a measure ahead of the recording the whole time, but they sang with a serious amount of gusto. I was misty the whole time, not gonna lie.  This year has been good for Addison. He loved kindergarten. Although it wasn't much of a challenge for him yet academically, he learned lots of important lessons about consistency, time management, getting up in the morning, and had lots of time to work on social skills. He loved math especially and excelled at it. Addison made lots of good friends this year, and I loved hearing about the games they would play together at recess. He even managed to hold it together pretty well the day he got hit in the face with a snow/...

Nate here. Michelle had the great idea of recording a couple thoughts about the last three years of my master's program at the University of Utah. So I'll start with one low and one high. The worst part of the whole experience was trying to squeeze classes and homework into a schedule already full to overflowing with a full-time job (and sometimes overtime), family responsibilities, commuting from home two counties away, church obligations, a yard that will never be under control, etc. Because I ride the train into Salt Lake I don't have a car at work, so I was stuck on the bus or light rail to get to the university and back downtown to work. I always, always, ALWAYS tried every scheme imaginable to cut down on commuting time. The worst was when I had a late-night class and had to catch the 9:00 train or have to wait until 10:00 for the next one. It stressed me out to no end. I tried biking, I tried bus-hopping to save time, and I sometimes asked classmates I barely knew to...