Year: 2011

Not that much to report tonight. M and A were playing on the couch, and M said, "Do you wanna tussle?" No idea where she got that from. M had to write 4 sentences for homework using words with long…

Daddy has some people over tonight from his camp. Whenever we are having company over, the girls go through the following cycle: EXCITEMENT at the prospect of people at the house —> MORE EXCITEMENT as the arrival of the guests…

Birthday parties: 1 (only A invited/attended) Slight fevers: 1 (M) New games learned: 1 (Scrabble) Home entertainment systems broken: 1, tonight (grrrrr) Average temperature this weekend: 30 degrees Mother-daughter book club meetings attended: 1, for Eloise. Games of Simon Classic…

M will be speaking next Thursday for the school announcements. The announcements are read from the office and broadcast into all of the classrooms. She is supposed to talk about EITHER her New Year's Resolutions OR self-discipline. I am very excited…

Cookie forms turned in Watched 'Idol' on couch with girls Couldn't be cuter.

We had a glorious morning. It rained/sleeted last night, so there was a layer of slick ice ont he road and the cars this morning. Daddy and I got up at 7 to the news that DC schools were delayed…

Nights that the girls have spent sleeping on the floor in a fort made up of a comforter cover stretched over our bench and their bedposts: 4. Hours earlier than usual the girls woke up at Emily's house today after…