Life With an Infant

Hopkinton Patch Writer's Father's Day Top 10

Thank you to my husband, my kids' dad, and fathers everywhere for the things they do to make life easier!

At the end of the day, with an infant and two other small children, there are certain chores that I am so grateful their father takes care of! 10. Killing the spiders and moving the snakes!  I know that they are tiny compared to me and pose little threat but somehow they freak me out anyway and I really appreciate when someone else gets rid of them! 9. Mowing the lawn.  Pushing that mower around on a hot day with gas fumes blowing in my face is less than fun for me, so thank you for doing it every week. 8. Playing Daddy monster!  I hear the roars of a monster and the shrieks of delight as children scatter.   It is an all-time favorite in our house and a job I do not have a natural propensity or a desire for. 7. Being a horse for the kids…

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Hopkinton Veterans Speak

From Hopkinton to West Point to the Green Berets

Respecting, remembering and welcoming veterans is important to Army Special Forces Maj.Ted Hoyt.

Upon graduating from West Point, Hopkinton's Ted Hoyt started his military career in the Air Defense Artillery. He retired as a Major in the Army Special Forces also known as the Green Berets.  Hoyt was once in charge of a group of soldiers who spent months living in St. Petersburg, Russia, for language and culture immersion. They also trained in cross-country skiing.  Their ski instructor was an Olympic medalist. Hoyt said  they all had a grand old time drinking vodka and trying to understand their instructor's stories. During Operation Provide Comfort, Hoyt and his fellow soldiers supported Kurdish Iraq after the first Gulf War. They were treated as heroes.  Schools would let out early when the American soldiers came to town. On one …

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Ex-Hopkinton Elmwood Teacher Creates 'My Into List!'

Third-grade special-ed teacher now stay-home-mom Laurie Jason helps kids get appropriate birthday gifts.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was updated on May 25 at 7:45 a.m. to reflect the following change. My Into List!, which originally sold for $9.99, now sells for $7.99. Laurie Jason was a third-grade teacher at Hopkinton’s Elmwood School from 1995 until her daughter was born in 2003. Now she has started a business to help answer the bedeviling question of what to get your young children's friends or their birthdays with My Into List!   With her daughter and son now 8 and 6, that means lots of birthday parties and birthday gifts. “When I would ask my children what things their friends were 'into' they would simply shrug their shoulders,” Jason says. She says when she would email or call the birthday child's parents, busy as they were planning the…

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Laurie Jason

11:46 am on Tuesday, May 24, 2011

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Hopkinton school asks, 'Can You Walk A Mile In Their Shoes?'

Center School raises awareness for people with disabilities.

Hopkinton's Center School hosted disability-awareness programs for its first-grade students on Tuesday, May 10, and Thursday, May 12.  Children were able to experience what it is like to have disabilities by performing a series of tasks and activities from a disabled person's point of view. Dan Norton, a Physical Education teacher at Center School, arranged and ran the event assisted by a group of parent volunteers. "This program was started by (former Center School teacher) Sheila Buckland in 1994," Dan said. "We are trying to raise awareness for people with disabilities. One of our core values here at Center School is acceptance," he said. First graders participated in four different activities. The first involved children maneuvering in…

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