Categories September 2009

Mad Men

A colleague at work gave me two awesome sets of art supplies (markers, crayons, pencils, watercolors, oil pastels, etc.). The girls started playing with them as soon as I got home from work. Here is a picture of them using…

Categories September 2009

Head of the Year

Here are some of the things we did since I blogged last Thursday: Became "junior flu flighters" by getting Flu Mist at the doctor's office. Had a playdate with Abigail. Went to the family service for Rosh Hashanah and saw…

Categories September 2009

Four Books

Tonight I told the girls that I would read them four books. (We usually read two). M was in the midst of coloring, so I told her she could keep coloring upstairs on my bed while A and I read…

Categories September 2009

Breakneck Weekend

We had a very busy weekend with lots of activities for M&A. Ballet Saturday morning -w hich ran 15 minutes over and was supposedly "not too hard" this week. Kennedy Center Multicultural Festival after ballet – which was just OK.…

Categories September 2009

The Return of Clarabelle

Today I picked the girls up at school and told them that I had a number of surprises. They were: balloons within balloons from Trader Joe's new library books, including Tabitha's Terrifically Tough Tooth in honor of M's wiggly tooth…

Categories September 2009

Dog Door

We are nearing the end of a long week, which only felt like a long week, but was in fact a four-day week of which we are at day three. The girls are enjoying having, and doing, homework. Daddy asked…