I wish the worst for whomever had the great idea of importing rainbow looms to America. I find myself picking up about 100 tiny rubber bands every evening after my kids have dropped them all over the apartment. I’m sure
Throughout this post are pictures from our family’s recent trip to Israel. You’ll see the kids ziplining across the Jordan River and on a ropes course, the family at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, having a hamburger at a kosher
We just finished our summer holiday which involved two cities and two resorts: Chicago and DC, the Homestead in Virginia and the Mohonk Lodge in upstate NY. We are at the age where our kids want to be with us,
My son wanted a playdate with a kid in the neighborhood that he remembered from day camp last summer. It’s been a year and we made a few inquiries and hadn’t heard back from the parent. Karen was thinking that
This month’s edition starts off with more than normal family-oriented stuff because I have some good stories. This week our kids started Summer Day Camp. It is a real right of passage — they are now out of the house
This month my kids have been more interesting than world events. We traveled to Nassau and the Atlantis water park during the February school break. Jeremy was running through the whole park looking for the kids Splash Zone and then
We got this construction set by Mobilo, a nice German toy. Jeremy keeps showing me and everyone else how to put together anything. He is a very good engineer in the making. Elizabeth and I spent this past weekend in
This posting is a combination of stuff written in November and early December. There was a delay while this site was relaunched over the past month. Today (November 9), I’m sitting on a flight from Madrid to NYC and I’m
So now it’s a few days before elections and we get a freak hurricane in NYC which has pretty much shut down the city for a week. Before the storm, you saw all these people rushing home with pizzas. That’s
During our trip to Germany last month, our now 5 year old Jeremy wasn’t eating all that much and wasn’t pooping either. Finally, he cried out “Mommy, give me a carrot now. I want fruits and vegetables — I need
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