Today we went to visit Sadie, who is now called Lulu. She definitely remembered us, especially A! It was good to see her. She's more calm, biting less, and doing tricks like sit and paw and catching a treat. Her…

We have a lot to celebrate today. M&A finished school for the semester! A is done with all work; M needs to finish a paper. A got her driver's license! M&A got confirmed! We celebrated the last night of Hanukah!…

Today was the girls' confirmation celebration. As part of the celebration, they each read a statement (A's about (lack of) belief in God and M's about social justice and tikkun olam), and there was some music and some prayers and…

Here are some things that N has been up to: Creating a whole Survivor game for his dogs, including Tribal Council and eliminations Watching the TAR finale with Dan Opening more presents Attending an Outschool class on baseball stats, where…

Tonight at dinner, N introduced a trivia game. There were two rounds of 5-6 questions each which he had researched and prepared. It was really cute! And fun. Tomorrow is round 3. No baseball questions yet. Also, N is now…

We had a warm weekend here, which was really nice. N got a baseball lesson in today, the girls spent some time outside, and we were able to have Grandma Sandy over to exchange Hanukah presents today. One more week…

We've had two nights of Hanukah so far. Lots of presents opened, lots more to go. Highlights have been a digital watch/step counter for N; a tupperware set for Daddy (!); clothes for the girls; a set of carwash coupons…

Yesterday was N's half-birthday. He's now 8 1/2, even though he thinks half-birthdays are silly and didn't make any fuss about it. To celebrate M and A went to Safeway and bought him black and white cookies. In other exciting…

Uncle Jonathan and I did some tandem cooking tonight: we both made the same recipe for dinner from the weekly New York Times recipe newsletter. On Sunday, he told us he makes 4 of the 5 recipes every week, so…

Well, it's been a long couple of days. But better now. The girls are hard at work on lots of end-of-semester assignments. N played a lot of baseball this weekend, with Daddy yesterday and with Alex here today. He's also…