Categories March 2018

Spring Break Update

It is Day 2 of the Costa Rica trip. Sounds like last night wasn't great because they ignored the rooming requests and bunked everyone alphabetically for the night, which wasn't good news for A, in particular. But today seems better…

Categories March 2018

Erev Costa Rica

The girls are leaving for Costa Rica tomorrow! We are so sad to see them go. We spent today running more errands – Target, Modell's and TJ Maxx. The girls got new suitcases which, it turns out, are the perfect…

Categories March 2018

March For Our LIves

Today was the March For Our Lives. The kids made awesome signs and we went down and joined hundreds of thousands of people protesting for gun control. Here are some of my pics – Daddy has more: We had an…

Categories March 2018

Snow Day

Today was a relaxing and relatively productive snow day. We didn't get that much snow so it was easy to get around. First we went to the orthodontist, and got the good news that A doesn't need rubber bands during…

Categories March 2018

Snow Day Tomorrow

School is canceled for tomorrow due to impending snow. I am supposed to go to Minneapolis at 5PM – doesn't look too likely given a foot of snow predicted and high winds. Everyone here is happy about no school. A's…

Categories March 2018

N Cuteness

Little N had Scholastic Book Fair this morning, and he bought 2 books with the $10 I gave him: It's always cute to see the books he picks out on his own. We read them both tonight. This is a…

Categories March 2018

Weekend Report

On Friday night, Sarah generously hosted a dinner at her house in honor of Tracy and Dan, who were in town visiting schools. It was a very fun night – we didn't leave until 1:15AM! The kids there: M, A,…

Categories March 2018

SFS 2022

Big news: A has accepted her spot at Sidwell! Very exciting! Congratulations, A! M is still deciding. She made a spreadsheet tonight and ranked all the schools on a number of criteria. It resulted in a tie. And here is…

Categories March 2018

NCS Visit

The girls went to NCS today. I think they liked it more than they expected to. M is still weighing options! Apparently the food was good, the classes were mostly interesting and the new girls were nice. Tomorrow AM we…