The Grade one classes spend the month of December focusing on the different Christmas traditions each family celebrates. Over the years, I have witnessed many of these mini-celebrations with numerous ACES families. A question that has often come up is, “What about you? How do you celebrate Christmas?” So here are three of our best [...]
Life is full of surprises. I never had a concrete plan for what I thought my future would look like but I can tell you I didn't imagine what my reality is. Getting married and teaching for a couple of years wasn't so farfetched. That I enjoyed teaching as much as I did was a [...]
Heidi and I decided to get married in a vineyard—an active winery that makes quality wine. The sermon of the wedding ceremony included some messaging around Jesus’ very first miracle of turning water into wine and we participated in our very first communion together as a married couple—in front of a whole "host of witnesses." [...]
If only ACS was located in San Diego. Granted, we’d have to change our name to San Diego Christian School. We’d also have a terribly large part of our budget paying for the commute, we would have issues with international visas to attend SDCS, and a lot of people would have to relocate. But boy, [...]
When one of my kids came home on a Friday and declared, "I have to finish my project," I was filled with dread. Weekend plans were abandoned so I could try to achieve the impossible: learning the material the project was supposed to demonstrate, balancing my child's expectations with reality, understanding the standards against which the project would be [...]
Athletics. To paraphrase Jerry Seinfeld, “What’s the deal with athletics?” It seems that everyone has some thoughts on how ACS is doing and what we should be doing differently. Allow me to weigh in with some thoughts as a school administrator, parent, and coach. Straight-up, we have an excellent athletics program! Have we won a [...]
It’s not that my husband and I don’t enjoy cooking. We have a collection of favourite recipe books—the worn copy of the More with Less Cookbook that we packed back and forth to Africa and Hungary, my Hull Christian School Society Cookbook from Iowa (Snicker Salad, anyone?), a binder of recipes from both the Schut [...]
A couple of weeks ago a teacher told me that a considerable amount of money had disappeared from a wallet. As we were working through some possibilities for finding out what may have happened, I was told more had gone missing from someone else’s wallet. Given what we know, it seems clear that it happened [...]
I don’t know how the friendship started. I was young, sitting in church, very aware that if I started goofing off, I would get that dreaded pinch or swat from my parents. And oh, I would hear about it at home, and my family was well-known—two rows from the back of the church. All the [...]
by Eden Luymes In my preschool days, Julie Braun was the “magic lady.” She lived in a little schoolroom amongst doll houses, toy tractors, and teddy bears, turning play-dough into gold with a touch, telling wild stories, and singing the silliest songs that always left me giggling. Twelve years later and still at ACS, I [...]
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