Tonight we had a fun visit from our friend Greg, who was in town from Denver for work. His daughter Esther is the same age as the girls and he had a lot of questions for M&A about what they…

Tonight we made some progress on the book reports, M&A worked on gimp with some help from Grandma Sandy via Skype, we sent Grandma Dina and Grandpa Ron off on their months-long voyage to Asia, and the girls went to…

It has been a while! No posting on Friday or Saturday – very unlike me. But we are back! Good weekend. The best news is that N is sleeping well again. For the last 3 nights, he has slept through…

Tonight, we started the girls' historical fiction book reports (but didn't get that far). We also FaceTimed with Sarah and Uncle Jonathan, which was fun. We told Uncle Jonathan the story about M doing her Star of the Week presentation…

The girls are out tonight at the ballet with Grandma Sandy, seeing Alice in Wonderland. They looked very cute going off to the ballet, dressed up with their hair in buns. We are still having a lot of trouble getting…

Today was a good but very tiring day. We stayed home in the morning and watched the inauguration on TV – the swearing-in, the speeches, the performances. Then we bundled up and headed to the metro to go downtown for…

We've had a productive, but relaxing, two days. Here's what we've been up to: Errands done: library to get the new book club book on audio; Whole Foods to buy some lavender essential oil, which M has wanted since Levine…

Today was the spelling bee. M did a wonderful job. She made it three rounds, which for a third grader is amazing. There was a bit of a snafu in round 4. The speller AFTER M went up to the…

Tomorrow is the spelling bee! We haven't been quizzing M that much as we could, because we don't want this to be a stressful experience. 3rd graders can't go from this bee to the regional bee (only 4th and 5th…

M had to come up with some sentences for homework tonight that use homophones. I thought some of them were pretty funny: "My family went on a roadtrip and we didn't know where we were." "My mom took me to…