Team Smith

  Yesterday I wrote an email to my work team (This is Matt):  Hi everyone,   I’m writing to let you all know that June 3 rd   will be my last day at OSPI.   It’s a bittersweet decision: this has been the best job of my 15+ years in education, and you all are a great team to work with. My new role may be even better, though: stay at home dad   😊   My bride and favorite person on the planet Dr. Jeannette Smith accepted a new position at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, so Team Smith is headed East!   Thanks y’all, Matt    

Ohana = Family Mahalo = Thank you Keiki = Kids Honu = Turtle Every part of the US has its own culture, flavors, soul, and customs. What a gift it has been to learn more about the Big Island!  If you would like to get right to the hundreds of photos, take this link  to my smugmug account.   (https://jeannettesmith.smugmug.com/Hawaii-/n-fkhZkN/)  The icloud backup to gmail from my iphone has never worked right for me, so I started the $5/month plan for unlimited storage on smugmug a few months ago and I LOVE it. I'm slowly moving all of my digital photos over.  It was risky to plan the trip, the uncertainties of covid, travel, school, and work were on our minds all the time. When my doctor cleared me for travel at my 6 week post op, I celebrated by taking a nap. She had lived in Kona for 6 or 7 years and was so enthusiastic about this ridiculous plan we had, that I swear she considered joining us! Tomorrow will be 3 months post surgery, and I get fatigued eas...

Do y'all remember the book "Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day" by Judith Viorst and Ray Cruz? The kid has a bad day from sun up to sun down, and the parent tells them sometimes days are just like that. And that's the end of the book. This book was in my head the day I hit purchase on non refundable, one way, $138 tix to Hawaii.  We have crossed the one year anniversary since we started working from home and schooling from home. Month after month, we aggressively followed every news article that came out with new safety recs and followed them as they kept changing. Matt was lysoling the mail, leaving the groceries in the garage overnight, and wearing N95 masks to walk Biscuit and Shorty. He was the only one who ventured outside from March to roughly May.  February: #AhmaudArbery March: #BreonnaTaylorWasAsleep, #DanielPrude May: the sun started to come out more, we canceled Cass' bday trip to Harry Potter world, and started going outside fo...