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August 2008
Author: Gayle
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August 2008
Eat, Swim, Sleep
We had a very busy Saturday. Girls got up early and we had to ply them with television to keep them from going to wake up Grandma Dina and Grandpa Ron before 9 AM. Then they played upstairs for a…
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August 2008
Friday Haikus
The last day of camp Shabbat snacks, easel painting Still didn’t eat lunch ______ M joined me for walk Endless questions and chatter Could not be cuter ______ Dinner at Buppie’s A ate well, M not so much ‘Til brownies…
Book Reading
Tonight after work we went to a book signing at Politics and Prose. We didn’t have a babysitter so we brought M&A with us. While the reading was going on upstairs, Daddy hung out with the girls downstairs in the…
Cousin Baby
Tonight, we were talking about Imogene’s son Tyler, who is off at college. M said, "I am excited to go to college, so that I can learn a lot of things." But then the girls remembered that Tyler does not…
Piggy and Bunny: Postscript
Well, I have good news. Piggy and Bunny are back at home. They were right where A left them in the store and Daddy was there when the store opened (earlier, even) to retrieve them. Thank god. I was still…
Piggy and Bunny
Minor (well, actually major) disaster yesterday. We went out to Rockville to check out big girl beds. The store is about 30 minutes away. When we returned home, we realized that A had left Piggy and Bunny there. She was…
American Girls
This morning, we were supposed to go see a ballet performance at Wolf Trap, but it was canceled on account of rain. So instead, we took the girls to see Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Movie. This was the first…
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July 2008
Crisis Communications = Boring
The girls drew some very beautiful photos that I want to share on here. The first is by M and it’s a picture of me, Mommy, when M was in my tummy. Here it is: The second one is by…
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July 2008
Tears at Camp
A is not happy about camp. Today, she started saying, as we approached camp, that she didn’t want to go, that she wanted to go home. She got increasingly more upset once we got there. It got to the point…