Categories September 2009

Tuesday Miscellany

Tonight I came home from work to find the girls deep in their homework assignments for the night: some shape sequencing games, connecting capital to lower case letters, and putting some images in order that show a girl planting and…

Categories September 2009

Labor Day Wrapup

We've had a fun Labor Day weekend since the aborted sleepover on Saturday night. Yesterday, we hung out at home in the morning and I went for a longish run, and then we headed out to the Bethesda pool. It…

Categories September 2009

Sleepover, or Not?

I was so tired last night that I fell asleep without posting. I tried, but I fell asleep. So now it's Saturday at lunchtime. We are back from ballet. The girls said it was a good class and that they…

Second Week of School

Today when I got to school to drop off the girls, I was greeted by this sight at the doors (the woman on the right):   She is Lynn Main, the girls' principal. She is a force to be reckoned…

Categories August 2009

Birthday Fever

This was the weekend of the birthday party. We were invited to 4, and attended 3. Yesterday's was a boy in the girls' class, and was at a fire station in Kensington. The girls were a bit overwhelmed by the…

Categories August 2009

Halloween Season Begins

Day #4 at school. A told me this morning that she had not used the bathroom at school all week. This, of course, made me very unhappy. (She's quite particular about bathrooms). I told M that whenever she goes to…