The kids decided the other day that it was a nice day for a tea party. So they got dressed in their “best clothes” (Joseph’s suggestion) while I put the water on to boil, and then they set the menu while the tea was steeping.
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My little monkey boy has a new favorite way to expend energy: Number 29 from the list, “Play in doorways.” The picture above is pretty standard: he just wedges himself between the two doorways and schooches himself up. But one of his newest tricks is to just walk straight up one wall. I suspect the [...]
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It’s nice having a membership to the zoo, even if I don’t always make as good of use of it as I intend. Today, after crossing 19. go ice skating from the list and realizing it was too cloudy for 45. go to the pool, we decided to walk from the arena to the zoo [...]
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Our synagogue had a rummage sale this past weekend. My husband teased me for wanting to pay $5 to go to the “preview sale” Thursday night, but I had birthday money to spend and big Camp Wolff plans: I wanted board games. As soon as we walked in the door I made a bee-line for [...]
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Who’s surprised that this is the first thing the kids wanted to do from their list? I tried getting them to give me a minute or two to look up a few recipes, but they thought that was just a ridiculous waste of time. “Why can’t we just make our normal smoothies and freeze them?” [...]
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