Sara is out of town (Las Vegas) for this, the 8th week of summer break. It's just me and the kids. For the whole week. No camps. No friends or playdates. It started off pretty rough, I was anxious and the kids were angry, but yesterday went great and today might have been even better. In fact, despite my recent lamentations at the ephemeral nature ( Read more... )

This week in Arlington, the kids and I had two snow days after MLK day, one on Tuesday and the other yesterday (Friday). It's odd to think of how much time I have wasted checking on the possibility of snow days and then to reflect on how wisely or unwisely the time gained from them I then used. There were some good times this week though ( Read more... )

This year was a little rougher on us as a family. We took a family trip to Rome shortly before thanksgiving and the time from then to the Christmas seemed really short. We skipped a lot of our usual Christmas stuff. A few less specials/movies to watch, a few less light shows/holiday events to attend. What stayed? Fiona did the nutcracker, six times ( Read more... )

Look at that, I went a whole calendar year without a post ( Read more... )

AHHHH. This used to be so therapeutic for me. Is this place still owned by Russians? Are they good Russians at least ( Read more... )

Yearly post incoming here. Tomorrow is my birthday of 45 years, which makes today the anniversary of disturbing things. I can rattle off various "adultings" happening in my life these days. Most of them also qualify as "disturbances" though. My kitchen is being redone. It is taking FOR-EV-ER. I took a barre class on a whim, which has led to an ( Read more... )

Wow, more than a year since my last post ( Read more... )

I get these awful headaches if I don't get enough sleep, and they are so frustrating simply because I can see them coming a mile away, and I can't do anything to stop them unless I go to sleep, which I can't do because of kids/work. Today I had a bad one, had to leave my last class early. The assistant in there is really good, and covered for me. I ( Read more... )

I jinxed myself with the whole, starting to feel in control bit. Walter woke up with pink-eye, and for the first time I had cancel work to stay home with a sick child. It ended up being an good day, and Walter made some fine motor skill leaps, putting colored rings on sticks and then clapping about it ( Read more... )

First snow. Barely enough to take the kids sledding ( Read more... )