Categories January 2017

Find the Joy

A day spent mostly at home… Cooking with N… A few errands… A out tonight for a birthday party at SkyZone… M enjoying Boston… Despite what's going on in the world, we can find simple joys in our life.

Categories January 2017

Big Days for M&A!

Today was a very big day for M&A! M flew to Boston with her Model UN club. She left this morning and spent the day walking around Boston. Tomorrow she has her Model UN activities at BU. She is staying…

Categories January 2017

Cuteness

Some cuteness to share. First, A said that in her music class today, she had to share an embarrassing experience. She said she reported two things: 1) spilling apple juice on a fancy rug at the embassy in Norway when we…

Categories January 2017

La La Land

We've made a breakthrough – we can take N to adult movies! He saw Hidden Figures with us on Friday and La La Land with us today. And he liked them both! (Though he liked Hidden Figures better.) We all…

Categories January 2017

MARCH DAY

The news today is that we went to the Women's March downtown. It was pretty amazing. There were tons of people, everywhere. Half a million. We saw people protesting everything, people who had come from all over the country. We…

Categories January 2017

Dark Day in DC

Today was a real bummer of a day here in DC. We dealt with it by leaving town – the girls and I went to a dress store in Mt. Airy MD to look for dresses for 4/1. Ultimately left…

Categories January 2017

Back from NY

The girls and I are bingeing "The Office". I feel that I have succeeded as a parent. N has a game called "Which Sister"? If I get the right answer he says "Ding!" and if I am wrong he says…

Categories January 2017

Back from GA

Daddy and I are back from a very, very lovely 48 hours in Sea Island, GA. Daddy spoke at a conference on Saturday afternoon, and after that he was basically free of commitments. We had dinner with Jamie on Saturday…

Categories January 2017

Midsummer Night’s Dream

A's play was tonight! She did a great job. She had about 5 lines and had a great stage presence. The play was very well done.  Nice job, A! The spring musical has been announced and it's…. HAIRSPRAY! A is…