From Tina - What a great day for this issue to come out! March 7, 2011 - the 20th anniversary of Daniela's adoption!! Yah!! Be sure to check out the other post written today for my tribute (and photos!) to Daniela on this special day in her life.
I found out Friday that the March issue of Exceptional Parent Magazine would be coming out on Monday, which I was thrilled about. It didn't occur to me until later the significance of the day - then I got goosebumps!
I haven't shared the news with Daniela yet (and she also doesn't remember the anniversary day), so she is in for 2 big surprises this morning. She loves surprises so I know she'll be excited about these two. I have to go to work this morning, but will cue her in before I leave. I'm planning on taking her out to lunch today - just her and me - just like the day we adopted her.
When we come home, I'll sit down with her and help her put together her own post with her reflections about this great day. We have been taking a break from the blog for the past couple of months. After working so hard to finish high school and then the intensive efforts to look for, apply, and interview with college programs, we both felt we needed a little break to chill out and relax before she gets ready to leave for Wisconsin in July. She has been sleeping in, volunteering at the Humane Society, hanging out with friends and just enjoying not feeling any pressure to accomplish anything (except doing her laundry, caring for her cat, and keeping her room clean - hey, I'm not her maid after all! ;) ) This is a great day to get back in gear. (Soon we'll start shopping for school supplies. Her sister already bought her long underwear for those cold Wisconsin winters!)
Back to Exceptional Parent - wow, congratulations to the editors and staff for doing such a wonderful presentation of my article. It is four pages long with lots of pictures -wow! The pictures on the first page were provided by me (with Daniela in them, of course!) The rest are professional photographs provided by Shepherds College, including....... THE COVER PHOTO! How exciting that is. It's the first time one of my articles has been honored with a cover photo. It's a beautiful shot of a first year student, Samuel Zdancewicz, taken by the talented professional photographer Ellen Cook. Daniela will come to know Ellen next year as she takes many photographs for the college (including their upcoming first graduation ceremony!).
The article provides active links to this blog, the college web-site, and to Think College's web-site. With a circulation of 500,000 readers, hopefully all three web-sites will get lots of new interest. I think families, even with young children, will be excited to see the possibilities for their children's futures.
Here's more great news - you can all see the article in print! The magazine has recently gone digital to lower costs for subscribers (only $19.95 a year for 11 informative issues - plus the fantastic yearly resource guide!) One super advantage of reading it digitally is the ability to click on any link (including to this site!) featured in the magazine and be able to go to directly to the web-site. So cool!
For those of you who want to preview this great magazine, you can do it for free and, if you are careful, you can even read my article! You can only view limited pages in the preview so I'm going to explain here how to make sure you can view my article - here's how to do it:
Click here:
Exceptional Parent March 2011
Go to the bottom of the page where it says PREVIEW. Click on that word.
Next go to - 1) contents: (where you will see the article, "Daniela's Journey to Shepherds College"on the left side). You can click on that to get to the article.
Or - 2) you can click on pages: where you can click on pages 12/13. This will also take you to the article.
After reading the article I suggest you also click on the cover to see the great photo of Samuel and also go to the contents page to see all of the other great material in the magazine.
I hope all of you enjoy my story of our wonderful visit to Shepherds College and the rest of this great magazine!
All the best,
Tina
I found out Friday that the March issue of Exceptional Parent Magazine would be coming out on Monday, which I was thrilled about. It didn't occur to me until later the significance of the day - then I got goosebumps!
I haven't shared the news with Daniela yet (and she also doesn't remember the anniversary day), so she is in for 2 big surprises this morning. She loves surprises so I know she'll be excited about these two. I have to go to work this morning, but will cue her in before I leave. I'm planning on taking her out to lunch today - just her and me - just like the day we adopted her.
When we come home, I'll sit down with her and help her put together her own post with her reflections about this great day. We have been taking a break from the blog for the past couple of months. After working so hard to finish high school and then the intensive efforts to look for, apply, and interview with college programs, we both felt we needed a little break to chill out and relax before she gets ready to leave for Wisconsin in July. She has been sleeping in, volunteering at the Humane Society, hanging out with friends and just enjoying not feeling any pressure to accomplish anything (except doing her laundry, caring for her cat, and keeping her room clean - hey, I'm not her maid after all! ;) ) This is a great day to get back in gear. (Soon we'll start shopping for school supplies. Her sister already bought her long underwear for those cold Wisconsin winters!)
Back to Exceptional Parent - wow, congratulations to the editors and staff for doing such a wonderful presentation of my article. It is four pages long with lots of pictures -wow! The pictures on the first page were provided by me (with Daniela in them, of course!) The rest are professional photographs provided by Shepherds College, including....... THE COVER PHOTO! How exciting that is. It's the first time one of my articles has been honored with a cover photo. It's a beautiful shot of a first year student, Samuel Zdancewicz, taken by the talented professional photographer Ellen Cook. Daniela will come to know Ellen next year as she takes many photographs for the college (including their upcoming first graduation ceremony!).
The article provides active links to this blog, the college web-site, and to Think College's web-site. With a circulation of 500,000 readers, hopefully all three web-sites will get lots of new interest. I think families, even with young children, will be excited to see the possibilities for their children's futures.
Here's more great news - you can all see the article in print! The magazine has recently gone digital to lower costs for subscribers (only $19.95 a year for 11 informative issues - plus the fantastic yearly resource guide!) One super advantage of reading it digitally is the ability to click on any link (including to this site!) featured in the magazine and be able to go to directly to the web-site. So cool!
For those of you who want to preview this great magazine, you can do it for free and, if you are careful, you can even read my article! You can only view limited pages in the preview so I'm going to explain here how to make sure you can view my article - here's how to do it:
Click here:
Exceptional Parent March 2011
Go to the bottom of the page where it says PREVIEW. Click on that word.
Next go to - 1) contents: (where you will see the article, "Daniela's Journey to Shepherds College"on the left side). You can click on that to get to the article.
Or - 2) you can click on pages: where you can click on pages 12/13. This will also take you to the article.
After reading the article I suggest you also click on the cover to see the great photo of Samuel and also go to the contents page to see all of the other great material in the magazine.
I hope all of you enjoy my story of our wonderful visit to Shepherds College and the rest of this great magazine!
All the best,
Tina
Good to know Daniela has been using her holidays wisely!
ReplyDeleteAnd good on you, Marcy, for thinking of the chilly Union Grove winters and the thermal underwear.
(Love these iPaper and similar magazines!)
Have a great lunch together, Daniela and Tina.
So pages 12-13...(actually 12, 13, 14 and 15).
Admit I did not pick up the bit about the student leaders. I had heard of them lots on Facebook.
Keep dreaming boldly! Loved the pictures in Exceptional Parent of the culinary and the horticultural programmes.
And the way the students used appropriate independence (Ai) to buy cereal and compare products.
Dear everyone,
ReplyDeleteI was wondering if you know about the Free Library.
All the articles from Exceptional Parent appear there some time.
Daniela's journey to Shepherd's College from the Free Library
People can write comments on the Free Library if they want to.
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