Categories September 2020

Shanah Tovah

Happy new year! We had a nice day today. We watched services online after Dad and M made a challah bread (!). After services, we had an outdoor BYO lunch at the Campers' with the Weiners. It was a gorgeous…

Categories September 2020

Rosh Hashanah

It's Rosh Hashanah tonight. We "celebrated" by having dinner at the kitchen table and watching services online, but we were interrupted halfway through by the news that RBG had died today. It made the services feel a lot less relevant…

Categories September 2020

Nursing Home Tour

Today after work, M and I went out to distribute voting pamphlets to some of the area assisted living facilities and nursing homes. M was great about explaining what the pamphlets were and why they were needed. One place said…

Categories September 2020

List of Exciting Things

Exciting things that happened today during the pandemic: -N's new cleats came -M went to school and picked up her books and some supplies -M had pizza for lunch with friends in Maya's backyard -We changed the air conditioning filters…

Categories September 2020

First Day Of School

Today was M&A's first day of school. No real classes yet, but they had various assemblies and meetings and regaled us with stories at dinner. Hard year to be a senior, as all the usual rituals that seniors do had…

Categories September 2020

Erev School

This weekend ended up being way more hectic than I expected, with girls' plans hither and yon and people visiting us here. We made good use of the pool, inviting various friends (Larsons/Martins and Krevats) over to swim with their…

Categories September 2020

M Is Home

Maddie is back from her camping trip. She had a great time. Highlight of her summer. A drove on the Beltway and 270 – 2 hours up to Cunningham Falls. She did a great job. N was in the pool…

Categories September 2020

Camping

M is on her camping weekend away with Annabel, Maya, Phoebe, Maddy, Leo and Hank. It sounds like she is having a great time. They brought tons of stuff and food and supplies and were very organized. Daddy and N…

Categories September 2020

5 Things

For tomorrow, N has to put 5 things that are important to him in a bag and present them to his class. He also had to submit a writeup of what the thing were and why they were important to…