Categories December 2011

More from San Diego

Here is another update from San Diego. Yesterday was our big Disneyland day. We drove to Anaheim (90 mins away) and got there around 10. Disneyland was C-R-O-W-D-E-D. All those people on Christmas break – wow. I have never seen…

Categories December 2011

Update from San Diego

We are here in San Diego! We arrived yesterday after an uneventful flight from Dulles. We're staying in Mission Bay, which is a little bit north of the city. Today we went to the San Diego Zoo, which was huge…

Categories December 2011

Merry Christmas

It is a very quiet Christmas morning. Everyone is still sleeping, mostly because we had a very tumultuous night with Lucky barking at great length around 4:15 AM. Not sure what he was barking at – it was very strange.…

Categories December 2011

Hanukah Catch-Up

It is the Friday before Christmas and the girls and I are hanging out having a very relaxing time together in my room, listening to Radio Disney. M is making friendship bracelets for the snow angels in her cast, and…

Categories December 2011

Hanukah Promises

At Sunday School, the girls made some promises of things they will do this year. A wrote ones for the whole family, and M wrote one just for A. I scanned them at work today, although somehow M's never made…

Categories December 2011

Catching Up!

I didn't blog for the last few days, and what a few days I missed! Wow. OK, here's what happened since last Thursday. On Friday, A turned in her ancestor project: It includes a written report, a map of where…

Categories December 2011

How to be Helpful

M had an assignment in Peace Class yesterday about "How to be Helpful". I found this in her homework folder this morning and was very touched by it. I know she wrote small – here is what she said: I…

Categories December 2011

Snow Angels

Great progress on the family tradition projects last night. The girls wrote out long paragraphs on latkes and where their families came from, and we colored in maps to show the countries where our families are from and where Jews…

Categories December 2011

The Weekend By The Numbers

Another busy, exciting weekend! I will let the numbers tell the story. Nutcracker events today: 2 – performance at 1, Nutcracker Tea at 3:30 (more tomorrow, with pics) VIP guests at the Nutcracker today: Nana and Emily; Ms. Nickel; Ms.…