Today the girls got out at 12:15. I took the day off from work and picked them up at school and headed out to BounceU, a moon bounce place in Rockville where the girls were thinking about having their 9th…

Tonight is one of my feast favorite nights of the month: the night before book reports are due. It is now 9:56 and both reports are now done. The girls each did a great job. This month's theme was "Famous…

We were leafing through the program for Cinderella the other day and saw the upcoming Washington Ballet shows through 2014. One is called "The British Invasion" and is a ballet program set to the music of The Beatles and The…

I am very tired today because the little boy, who was such an angel at the seder, didn't sleep much at all last night. UGH. He was up every hour and now I am really, really tired. Another thing that…

We had a lovely Passover at Nana and Grampy's house tonight. I have to say, the kids – all three – were wonderful. M&A sang the Four Questions in Hebrew, and they read beautifully from the Haggadah when it was…

First, I have to start off with some sad news. My grandmother, Gussie Schrut, passed away on Saturday night. She was in her mid-90s. I have very sweet memories of my grandmother, who was possibly the kindest person I have…

We are in the throes of Cinderella! The girls performed last night and are there again tonight. Thankfully their afternoon rehearsal yesterday was cancelled, so they were able to go to Notebusters (A) and Girls on the Run (M) after…

Tonight was the girls' first Cinderella performance! They had quite a long day. M went to school, but A did not (her class was going on a field trip this AM and she wouldn't have been back before Imogene was…

In the last few days, the little boy has started crawling a ton, pulling himself up, cruising the furniture, and exploring the house. It is so cool to see his brain developing, and his sense of his body and how…

Last week when I was at SXSW, I got this email from M via Daddy's blackberry, with the header "I miss YOU!!". I loved it. To Mommy, I miss you ssssssssssssssoooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much. 😛 I love u and I'm so…