Category: family
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Flight from Heck and the Derecho
We arrived back from Hong Kong on Saturday, June 30–14 hours later than planned due to a 10 hour delay taking off from Hong Kong, a diversion to Minneapolis due to bad weather in Chicago and insufficient fuel to hover after the trans-Pacific flight, and a system alarm light coming on as we were getting…
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Protected: Graduation (the 4th grade version)
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Chinese Water Clock
Our 10 year old is studying ancient China at school this year, and as part of the curriculum, he had to make a model of a Chinese water clock (being a boy, he was bummed that he didn’t get his first choice, the crossbow). Fortunately, Jim is really good at these projects, and after a…
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Inconveniences not problems
As I was standing in the line at the post office this morning, stressing about all that has to be done over the next few days, I learned that a child of a friend of mine who has a controlled but serious medical disorder had relapsed. This reminded me of the true priorities in life…
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Happy Anniversary!
We’ve been married 22 years as of today! It’s been more fun and more rewarding than I could have ever imagined. Happy anniversary, sweetie!! Postscript: we spent the day shuttling child #1 to and from a bat mitzvah service and party and going to a school event for child #2. The day concluded with a…
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Guy Savoy (in Paris)
So, we didn’t think our meal at Taillevent could be surpassed or that any restaurant could come close in terms of food and service. We were wrong. Guy Savoy was another culinary marvel that we were lucky enough to experience during our stay in Paris. (The official address is 18 rue Troyon, 75017 Paris; 01-43-80-40-61.)…
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Hunger Games (book & movie)
On Saturday, we gave into our children’s pleadings (whinings?) and took them to see the movie, Hunger Games, since everyone in their grades had seen it already. After getting home from the movie, I then promptly read the book to see how true to the book the movie was. Book first (priorities are priorities). Hunger…
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Spring Break in the City of Lights
We left on a Thursday night for Paris after a crazy week where life actually interfered with our carefully balanced routine (more about that in a separate blog). We stayed at the Shangri-la Hotel, a fairly new hotel where one reviewer commented that it was the one place where you could actually get Asian quality…
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Disneyworld in March
The kids had a 3 day weekend (with Friday off) this past week, so we hopped on a plane Thursday night to go to <drum roll, please> Disneyworld!! (I know this comes as an immense surprise.) This trip was very different than most of the previous trips that we have made. The kids really wanted…
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Chronicles of the Mole Family, Chapter 6
Woodpeckers! I actually couldn’t tell you the difference between a woodpecker and a red-crowned crane (or any other bird), but spring is almost here, which means the birds are returning, and one of the unintended consequences about our construction is that when you leave gaping holes in parts of your house, birds can fly in. …