May 11, 201208:25 AM
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Come to the Fair!

Eve Kidd Crawford

OK, forget self-indulgence; this blog has now officially crossed into the territory of shameless self-promotion. Well, maybe not self-promotion, exactly, but promoting something that is very dear to my heart and very important to me.

My daughter is currently attending pre-K at a wonderful new charter school. Morris Jeff Community School is the only elementary school in the area that is pursuing accreditation for an International Baccalaureate curriculum. In the past year, Ruby has learned a lot of words in several African languages as well as American Sign Language, along with becoming proficient in Spanish. She has studied math, phonics, animals, the five senses, the differences between wants and needs, modes of transportation, simple machines and communities. She has taken a lot of field trips and created two major projects to cap off units of study. She has art, music and Spanish every single day. And she’s done all of this in an incredibly diverse environment that mirrors the racial makeup of our city. I am so proud to be a part of this school and so excited to see where it goes over the next few years.

But in order for Morris Jeff to be able to grow and expand and serve as many kids as possible, we need to raise funds. We’ve had bake sales and book sales and a big gala – and this weekend is one of the biggest fundraisers of the year: the Feria de Primavera.

The Feria will be held this Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at First Grace United Methodist Church at the corner of Canal and Jeff Davis. The fair itself is free and open to the public, although food, drinks, T-shirts, games and student artwork will be for sale.

There will be pre-K students performing the “Chocolate” song in Spanish while dressed as Hershey Kisses, which is so cute I can hardly stand it. There will be a bounce house and a cakewalk. There will even be sangria and massages, which sounds to me like a great combination for an early Mother’s Day present.

So please, if you’re in the area or you’d like to learn more about MJCS, stop by.

This article appears in the May 2012 issue of Joie d'Eve

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Eve is further proof, if any is needed, that New Orleans girls can never escape the city. After living here since the age of 3 and graduating from Ben Franklin High School, Eve moved to Columbia, Mo., where she received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Missouri School of Journalism and became truly, unhealthily obsessed with grammar.

She had originally intended to strike out to New York City and work in the cutthroat magazine industry there, but after Katrina, Eve felt a strong pull to return home, to her roots, her family, her waterlogged and struggling city – and a much more forgiving work atmosphere that would allow her to skip a routine of everyday makeup and size 0 designer label business suits and enjoy the occasional cocktail or three with an absurdly fattening lunch. She moved back home in January 2008 and lives in Mid-City with her daughter, Ruby, 5; her 10-year-old stepson; and her husband, Robert Peyton. She and Robert are expecting their first child together, a daughter, in May 2012. 

In addition to serving as the editor of New Orleans Homes & Lifestyles and the managing editor of Louisiana Life and Acadiana Profile, Eve blogs about the joys and struggles of living in post-Katrina New Orleans, the unique problems and delights of raising a child in such a diverse and challenging city – including her experiences with the public education system – and her always entertaining and extremely colorful family.

Eve has won numerous writing awards, including the Pirates Alley Faulkner Society Gold Medal, the Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence award for column-writing and Press Club of New Orleans awards for her Editor’s Note in New Orleans Homes & Lifestyles and for this blog.

She welcomes comments, advice, empty flattery, recipes, drink invitations and – most especially – grammatical or linguistic debates.

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