Chag sameach! I hope you all had a lovely Seder. We were at the Ps, where the usual chaos was "enhanced" by an extra dog: another retriever, visiting from Boston with GP's family. The was at least one dog under the table at any time. It was strange to have a Seder which was read almost entirely in English, after so many years of everyone being able ( Read more... )

This has been a very busy couple of weeks. Among other things I did a ton of knitting and also went to Baltimore twice, so apologies again for the lateness of my update on Thanksgiving and the week before.

I'll actually start at the end, what we did today, because it is closely connected to what we did two weeks ago: We spent the day at the Spy ( Read more... )

I must be settling down, since I haven't written in a while. I will start with A and S's back to school nights. A, being in middle school, has no real class (homeroom is merely administrative), and his back to school night was a miniature school day, with eight minutes with each teacher (20 with the math teacher, since he has maths every day). It ( Read more... )