Heidi recently learned how to climb out of her crib and tonight she tried it for the first time in a see-if-I-can-push-bedtime-later attempt. Of course, I took her right back to bed and she didn’t want to. As I put her in bed and firmly commanded “Do not get out of bed again,” she asked [...]
Category Archive for 'Holidays'
Easter Preparation
Posted in Family, Family Home Evening, Family Home Evening, Gluten Free, Holidays on Apr 17th, 2011
Colin’s mother’s family has started holding their annual family reunion on Easter weekend. I really like the idea of helping the holiday to be special by getting together and connecting as a family. This year we’ve got fancy dinners and traditional Cuban food and an easter egg hunt and all kinds of fun planned. I’ve [...]
Some of you may not know that I spent several of my growing up years in Israel. My parents, thinking we’d be living there forever, sent my sisters and I to an Orthodox Jewish elementary school where we learned Hebrew by immersion. We also got some cultural broadening, all of which I appreciate more now [...]
Saturday will be Maggie’s 4th birthday! We’re having a Princess “lemonade party” (little girls’ version of a tea party) on Friday morning for her and we’ve been getting ready for it all morning. Colin started by cleaning up the family room and setting up Maggie’s Hello Kitty tent, which Heidi is more excited about than [...]
It’s nine in the morning and I’ve already missed an appointment! The plan was to go to the PTA meeting, but I hadn’t arranged with Colin to watch the kids and didn’t really think about it until 8:39 and by then the 8:30 meeting had already started and it’s a 15 minute drive away. Hopefully [...]
Isn’t giving everyone the day off of work a funny way to celebrate the amazing work ethic of the average American? And I swear that when I was a kid I was confused by the name of the holiday and wasn’t totally sure we weren’t celebrating a second Mother’s Day. Degen asked me yesterday when [...]
Happy Father’s Day!
Posted in Holidays on Jun 21st, 2009
We got back yesterday from our trip to DC for my sister’s graduation and boy am I tired! It’s taken me about 2 hours to get through my email, and I have only listened to 4 of my 15 voicemails. Know, for your own future reference, that I’m a notoriously bad voicemail checker. But it [...]
Image by hint of plum via Flickr To all of you moms out there, happy Mother’s Day! My mother is definitely one of the best mothers ever, and I dare anyone to try to top her efforts or results. Really, try it, you’ll be happier for it. My mom is a great teacher and [...]
When my mother found out Maggie and I were going to be at our “family reunion” in DC, she said she wanted to pay to bring Degen and Colin. So she bought them tickets and we’re all going to Washington, DC, for the graduation. Yay! The catch is that Colin can’t come as early as [...]