Categories July 2020

Busy Quarantine

For kids in quarantine, M, N and A are pretty busy. A had her program most of the day. It included some performing and also a meeting with a casting agent, which she said was very cool. She also says…

Categories July 2020

Zooming The Day Away

Lots of zooming in the house today. I took the day off so I didn't have any calls (glory be!) but here's what was going on here: Daddy – his usual spate of meetings M – her first Chinese class.…

Categories July 2020

4th Of July In Quarantine

This was a long and relatively busy weekend. We had some social plans, some downtime, lots of exercise and eating. Daddy had friends over twice – Frank came on Friday night and stayed til 3AM, and then Frank came back…

Categories July 2020

Hypocrisy

Tonight Daddy ate ice cream straight out of the carton. N said, "Daddy, that's what you tell us NOT to do. Your options are – you can not do that again, or you have to stop telling us not to…

Categories July 2020

Guess Who

Yesterday when we were deciding which board game to play, N said "should we just get Guess Who over with?" So we played Guess Who. Halfway through, I asked him if it would get a check mark on the list,…

Categories June 2020

Sorry!

Today N had a playdate here with Jackson after his morning of camp. They played in the trampoline and the pool and seemed to have a very good time. Tomorrow, Jackson is coming back and his mom is taking the…

Categories June 2020

24 Hour House

We have some crazy schedules going on the house. A is on west coast time, with her daily classes at UCLA ending at 1230 ET. She just finished and got in the pool! And M is now joining her (it…

Categories June 2020

Morning Post Experiment

Writing the blog at night doesn't seem to be working well for me right now, as I usually fall asleep before or while posting.  So now it's 10:45AM on a Saturday and maybe this is the better way to go.…

Categories June 2020

Morning Post Experiment

Writing the blog at night doesn't seem to be working well for me right now, as I usually fall asleep before or while posting.  So now it's 10:45AM on a Saturday and maybe this is the better way to go.…

Categories June 2020

Would You Rather…???

At dinner each night, N asks a "would you rather?" question. Last night, it was "would you rather be able to fly, be able to speak every language, or eat nothing but candy all day but have it be nutritious?"…