Quick Successions: New Mexico Edition

Memorial Day weekend kicked off on Friday after I finished with a 10 am. meeting. I came home, ran, and then we went to Kansas City, stopping first at a mall to grab something to eat and ride the carousel.  When we saw it wasn’t raining (as had been predicted) we went the rest of the way to Kaufmann Stadium, home of the Kansas City Royals and watched them pay the Chicago White Sox. The CWS were having a good season, but with help from Hannah’s cheering, the Royals managed a seventh inning comeback. After the game, there were Friday Night Fireworks. We arrived home at 11:30 pm. Saturday we went to the outlet mall in Kansas City, Kansas so Hannah could see the big fountain and so I could buy her some summer clothes that fit. She is skinny and her legs are long and so finding shorts is difficult. When we returned, we went grocery shopping. Sunday was a day of churching, resting, and some house cleaning. Monday we went to the new Jane Austen movie Love ...

We are in a bit of a wind down here. Classes are over. Preschool is in its final week. I finished another round of revisions on my dissertation. I went and made a presentation in California in May. Here is me tired from the long plane ride, sitting in the shuttle during 5 p.m. Los Angeles traffic. It actually wasn't worse than San Jose or San Francisco or Manhattan. Big cities just have bog traffic. It was a quick trip. I went there on Thursday and returned on Friday after I shared my research and talked about teaching. Yesterday (Wednesday) was Hannah's final official day of preschool. It was a good place for her. When we told her there was no more preschool she exclaimed "Well, now how am I going to learn!" We brainstormed some things we could do over the summer. For instance, she really liked working with the Junque (junk) box at the school finding scrap items to make crafts. So I took her to the store and we bought her a Junque box so that she could continu...

Hannah had her first art show a couple of weeks ago. Here is the art that she chose to display.  A reception was held in conjunction with the show and all the parents and children stood in the atrium and had cookies and conversed while people looked at the art. Famed cultural theorist and ethnographer Pierre Bourdieu would have so much to say about the way in which children are apprenticed into the habitus of the middle class at such events. Hannah and I at the show. When Hannah went to LegoLand Discovery Center in Kansas City the ticket I bought let us back into the aquarium if we went within 30 days. So as soon as I got back from AERA we went. It was a really nice day.  On Friday before Mother's Day I took Hannah to a research site were I was inviting people to participate in my study. She was dressed like Minnie Mouse handing out cookies and when people came up to get a cookie I told them about my study. I was able to find quite a...