Our kids’ favorite 3 words are “No More School.” Our 3 favorite words are “Back To School.” All summer long Jeremy was watching the weather forecast waiting for it to be hot so he could go outside and sell lemonade.
Last week I celebrated my 50th birthday. My mom stood up and said a few nice things about me and my parents gave me a fancy watch. My kids wrote me beautiful cards and we went out to dinner. Karen
I drove my kids all the way to Pennsylvania and back for less than $9 in gas. Can you believe it? We went to this place that just opened a year ago called Camelback which is about 2 miles from
I was thrilled to see my now 10 year old daughter sitting on a chaise lounge at the pool over our holiday vacation reading the New York Times. My son was with her and they were both attempting to do
This has been a big week for us; Elizabeth has turned 10. Our daughter is now in double digit territory. I chaperoned her and several young girls having a tea party at a local tea house and did my best
This past month my daughter Elizabeth who is soon to turn 10 cooked up a chicken cutlet dinner (well, she prepared the cutlet and someone else did the frying). Afterward, she went to bed early. She said that all that
Every year in the final hours before and after Yom Kippur I have a personal ritual of taking out my box of old cassette tapes and listening to some cantorial and other religious music as I ponder my circumstances and
My son went to Gladiator School in Rome during our visit to Italy last month. He tends to talk a lot and his gladiator instructor who very much looked the part and wanted to simulate ancient Rome was having none
We have reached another milestone in our family – we are now calling the “diaper bag” the “fun bag.” You know how you keep calling something the diaper bag even though your kids have been out of diapers for years?
Can you believe that in the US if you want to telephone the Internal Revenue Service to ask a question about how to file your taxes they no longer have people who will talk to you? My son Jeremy did
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