Month: February 2022

My morning routine before heading out the door each day. Fill the giant YETI with coffee, take a mason jar of overnight oats out of the fridge and add a variety of toppings, and then fill my little Blend Jet (check out link here as I think it’s pretty cool!) with some smoothie fixings. Both of my boys have their own Blend Jets as well and will often fill theirs to drink on the way to school or, for Finn, at school as his morning snack. Once they are charged, they are perfect for on-the-go and can be used several days in a row before you need to charge them quickly again. They come apart easily and are a breeze to clean. Short video included of the cordless mini blender doing it’s thing on my desk at work.

Good Morning, chickens. One of the things that I love most about my job as part of Harborlight Montessori school’s Admin team is that, along with my normal responsibilities, sometimes I never really know where the day will take me. Lots of times I’m just plugging away in my office, but sometimes it takes me to Wachusett Mountain as our 6th-8th graders ski all day every Friday during the winter, sometimes I find myself hopping on the train at the Montserrat station to accompany a group on a field trip to Boston, sometimes I cover in a classroom, or go skating at Endicott’s rink with the younger elementary students, and….often….I find myself in the chicken coop. Last May we hatched chicks in one classroom and ducklings in another. Unfortunately, the campus isn’t properly equipped to house ducks, but we were super excited to make the decision to have chickens. We raised the chicks for several weeks after they hatched before sending them off to the farmer who gave us the eggs. Once they were old enough and we were back in school after a summer break, we welcomed the chickens back to campus. Having them on campus has been such a wonderful learning experience for all our students. In better weather you’ll always see families or our youngest toddlers/preschoolers visiting the hens on our greenhouse lawn. Older students will often eat lunch outside on the picnic tables near the chickens or open a book on the wooden swing right next to the coop. The Middle School students gather the eggs….and either use them to cook or hand them out to teachers to take home. Good stuff.