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Yesterday and today we have been working hard to settle our daughter in her new apartment in Syracuse. Her lease begins today and today was also her first day of school. We were grateful to able to start getting her in the day before, but she needed help finishing the move-in task because she is … Read more
Last night was the Homeschool Prom for northern Fairfield County. About 50 kids attended, and here are some photos of our daughter and her friends just before going. Most of these kids I have known since they were five. Our daughter (in the short blue dress) made the necklace herself, that she wore to the … Read more
We are so proud of our daughter Virginia who graduated today from St. John’s college in Annapolis. Out of 140 students in her class, 97 made it to graduation. This is a challenging place, and she has done very well. The college paper picks one senior each year to highlight in an article and this … Read more
Tomorrow our daughter graduates from St. John’s College in Annapolis. Today we’ve come down to begin the festivities, picking up our son from Swarthmore where he is in the middle of finals. We brought two cars so my husband can take him back soon after the graduation tomorrow, and return home to a busy week … Read more
Yesterday we were out of pocket for 22 hours going to Maryland and back to attend our daughter’s Senior Oral at St. John’s College in Annapolis. We had a great day and she did an excellent job. Getting started at 4:30 am we saw dawn’s glow on the GW Bridge, as you can see in … Read more
In January, I posted relief that all our daughter’s graduate school applications were complete. Since then, we found out that she was accepted at five excellent schools, and she set about visiting them for their admitted student days. Last week alone she was on a plane six days out of seven doing just that, and … Read more
When I went to the grocery today to buy cauliflower for my sweetheart’s Valentine’s Day dinner I was delighted to see the flower department swarming with…
I’ve had a very nice low key day. In most respects it was like any other day except with extra phone calls, including my first call from my son since becoming
Our older daughter scored two tickets to the inauguration and invited her brother to go with her. He had to write his professors and miss the first day of…
We got married in New York City since that’s where I lived – not in Ann Arbor where I spent the first 25 years of life and where my parents were, and not in
We had a nice day; it is rare for us to spend a whole day just the five of us, and that is the biggest treat of all…
Loved this wonderful Christmas video! Enjoy and Merry Christmas!
Below is a list of 25 Christmas songs renamed by lawyers. Your job is to decipher the names and return them to their original format.
Our older daughter turned 21 today with a quiet celebration comprising of frosted sugar cookies and the present of a couple books supporting her interest in…
Our son turns 18 today and goes to college tomorrow to start his Freshman year. It is sobering to think he is now registered for the draft and that at this age my dad was enlisted in World War II.
This scene should look familiar to long-time blog readers. Our youngest daughter started having her birthday party on her half-birthday many years ago, when…
Today our oldest daughter finished up a paid summer internship for the Governor of Maryland. Yesterday, she presented her policy paper to Governor O’Malley.