Today was N’s band concert. They played three songs as the Symphonic Band (7th and 8th grade) and two songs with the 5th and 6th grade band. The three songs were “Gates Of Orion”, “March From Symphony No. 2” and…

D&N went to the last Dad’s Camping Weekend ever. (So sad!) Hard to believe this tradition has come to an end. They had a good time, as always. N kept up with the older kids and the dads, and they…

The girls turned 21 three days ago!!! THEY ARE ADULTS! They can drink legally! Their licenses can now be horizontal instead of vertical! Very exciting. Here is how they celebrated. A went to Princeton from NYC on Tuesday night and…

It’s Saturday night and here is what is going on. N went to a b’nai mitzvah today for two classmates at GDS. He had lots of baseball this week – practice, games for GDS and BCC – and for once…

Lots of baseball this weekend. N had White Sox games Friday and Sunday. Friday’s wasn’t a great game but today’s was a 19-6 win. It’s nice to have his games back on the calendar. The Nats meanwhile had two walkoff…

Not a banner day at 10 W Kirke. Here are a few things that went wrong: Ok, we all survived the day. Here are some cute pics from the game:

Here is another batch of pics I love from the bar mitzvah:

Before 4/5 is too far in the rear view, here are some of my favorite memories from the weekend: Hearing N give his speech. He did such a great job. Slow, clear, confident, articulate. Hearing everyone say what a great…

Today N had a field trip of sorts where he went to Dupont Circle and manned a booth related to wellness (the whole grade did it; some went to other locations). He said that he was using a voice similar…

I will go back to bar mitzvah posts this week but wanted to quickly post about our weekend. We drove up to Aunt Darrah’s house yesterday for Passover. We didn’t get up until late-ish on Saturday night, especially because we…