Christmas

It’s Christmas and I’m the only one up.  I was always the first one up as a kid on Christmas morning, and apparently that holds true as an adult as well.  Can’t believe it.  Aliza is a big talker about how she’s going to get up in the middle of the night to see if [...]

My Dream

I have this dream, that one day I’ll have 3 children who excitedly tear open their presents on Christmas morning, instead of just 1 excited child and 2 whom we have to coax into paying attention to the presents instead of their Dora video.  I dream that all three kids will shout things like “I [...]

2 Books That Made Me Think

I recently read Three Cups of Tea for my book club, and was a little startled to actually like it.  It really showed me what life is like in Pakistan and the Middle East, especially for children.  I couldn’t agree more with its message:  we can best combat terrorism with education, not war.  They are teaching [...]

Mizithra Cheese

See. look at me go already — two posts in one week, and it’s not even 2010 yet.  I’m so on top of things. Had a nice dinner last night with some old friends.  Not nice to my diet, perhaps, but very nice to everything else, and what the heck, it’s the holidays, and I’ll [...]

An Update and Snippets

I intend to update this blog more often in the new year.  Call it a resolution or whatever — I’m going to do it. By the way — the post just before this one, about how Zack was sick — he had H1N1.  A day or so after he got sick, AJ got sick, I [...]