I am not a yeller. I try to remain calm if something upsets me, and while I may use a stern tone of voice sometimes with the girls, I don't yell. Tonight, I yelled. We had a nice night when…

Lovely weekend here in DC. 70s and so pleasant. Yesterday, we had to take Daddy to the airport – he is away for 2 weeks in Asia for work. We all miss him a lot.  Here's what we've been up…

A very long day today. Girls had school, Shabbat, and then stayed at home for the rest of the afternoon, despite the beautiful warm weather. But then we went downtown for the Smuckers' Stars on Ice show at Verizon. We…

First of all, I've been alerted by a few people that they never received a Feedblitz email about Monday's post about the 50 minute ballet the girls put on for me. So, if you missed it – click here to…

M likes to type notes from my Blackberry to various members of her family, as many of you know from being recipients of "From Maddie"-titled emails from my email address. Her emails usually consist of the following: Maddie Alexa Daddy…

It was a snow day today, so the girls were inside almost the whole day. They came outside this morning and helped us "shovel" and get the snow off the cars. Then they got cold, and that was that for playing…

We had a very busy weekend. A lot of time was spent furniture shopping, which the girls do not love. Much whining, especially today. But it was productive and we hope to have some new living room stuff in place soon. It…