For most of our families, school now has been in session for just over two weeks and things are starting to feel somewhat routine as a “new normal” is established. For the Babcock family, party of six, that “new normal” reaches far beyond the afternoon dismissal bells as the whole family spends much of their week connected to the Lubbock Independent School district world.

Have you ever tried to learn something new? Maybe a hobby, a second language, or a computer program? When I was a kid my parents would take me, my sisters, and my brother to the mountains of New Mexico to go skiing.

Have you ever been to Glen Rose, Texas and seen the footprints of prehistoric creatures that are preserved in the rocks there? They are fascinating; they look so clear; many of them look like
they were made yesterday, and yet scientists tell us that they were made millions of years ago.

You were there with us when we first started out, two childless twenty-somethings in a big green safari tent in the middle of nowhere, naïve and excited about life in a wildly new place, learning how to take bucket baths, make new friends, conjugate Arabic verbs.