Changing up my Bio

Dear Readers,
For those of you who noticed, I changed up my bio a little bit to include my short-lived experience in Sports Information. It was a change in my life during college, when I wasn’t really sure of where I wanted to go in life.
I even admitted that I wasn’t very good at it at the time, but it was such an amazing, fun opportunity to work for my school’s athletic department. It really made my time there more memorable than if I had just been a student.
I also need to pay homage to the athletic department at Cal State Fullerton because it was at the baseball field that I met my husband.

Parent Participation

Good Morning Readers,
I am writing this post this morning because Friday is the day that I volunteer at my son’s school at the library. Parent participation at schools has become a crucial component to keeping many of our schools running efficiently. With so many educational funding cuts in the State budget, so many schools are going without.
You can turn on the news in the evening and hear reports of schools cutting after-school programs, art and music programs all over the country because of the lack of state and local resources.
I am a firm believer in letting my kids have their own time in school without me intruding on their class time, I certainly don’t want to do anything to embarrass them. But I do what I can to help out a school with depleted resources.
But there are so many schools not as fortunate as ours. If you are a daily news watcher like I am, you can see stories about homeless children around the country going to school and not having breakfast in their stomachs or not having the proper equipment to do their school work.
It’s very easy to say that it’s not your problem if you are doing well enough to take care of your own family’s needs. But I ask you to consider, if you can afford a daily cup of coffee at Starbucks, to reach out to needier schools in your area.
Thanks for reading,
Aimee
“Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow