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For some reason, spring seems to be the time for traveling around here. A few weekends ago, Neal presented at the Eastern Economics Association conference in NYC, so we got to take a little weekend get-away to the city. What fun we had! We took the Amtrak from Providence to Penn Station and then headed uptown to our hotel. We had been warned prior ( Read more... )

* Aviva is still sick. Explosive diarrhea & vomiting multiple times a day. Gross!

(* for those who don't have the time/don't want to read the proceeding entry)

1) Neal's grandfather passed away at the beginning of December
2) Aviva & I stayed at his parent's house for the week before heading out to Iowa
3) We drove to Iowa in one day
4) Aviva got sick on the way out
5) There was extremely bad weather on the way out to Iowa
6) There ( Read more... )

    Whew - what a crazy few weeks we've had around here! It all started on December 4th when Neal's grandfather passed away. According to Jewish custom, the burial typically has to happen within 24 hours, but there were a lot of roadblocks, so the funeral was on the 7th instead. Neal's sisters and all of their babies came for the funeral, so Aviva ( Read more... )

     i think this house has it in for me. seriously! so, it's been getting colder here at night (30s and 40s), so i thought it would be time to turn on the heater. well, it's the type of heat that comes through baseboards and goes through a boiler system, so i have no idea how it works. both neal & i tried calling the makers of the system to get ( Read more... )

for those of you who knew me my senior year of college, you most likely knew mike, my crazy yet affable across the hall neighbor at gaslight village. after moving out, neal & i would continue to run into mike downtown and we would catch up with how things were going. please read:

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So, when Grandma Marilyn was here at the end-ish of September, Aviva was just beginning to cut her first tooth. She was kind of cranky for the following few days, and now we know why! She got a "buy one, get one free" discount on front teeth! Now she has two bottom teeth and she loves to use them. She took a nip on my finger the other day and ( Read more... )

. . . . in the swimming pool. yesterday was aviva's first swim class - she did VERY well. she absolutely loved the water (neal & i took her to the pool on tuesday just to get used to it so she would be okay during lessons) and the instructor even told aviva two times that she was doing an awesome job! we sang songs and kicked our legs and paddled ( Read more... )

   in honor of our 4th anniversary, we were going to go whale watching today at the northernmost tip of cape cod, ma. unfortunately, this silly thing called tropical storm hanna had to get in way, so they had to cancel all trips today. the storm actually hit last night starting around 8pm or so and was over by the time neal & i went to bed at like ( Read more... )