More Than Four Sides

Category: Family & Friends

  • Thanksgiving – Kissimmee, FL style

    What a day!! I woke up this morning at 6:30 am, thinking “I have so much to cook, how will I get it all done.” We’re down in Florida, in a rental house, with a minimalist kitchen, and a dinner for nine to cook. And we never got the leeks!! The leeks were an integral…

  • The Magic Kingdom, and beyond…

    It’s 45 minutes before midnight, and I wish I could cook some of the meal we will enjoy tomorrow, but with my MIL sleeping on the sofa in the living room, which is really just the other end of the first floor that the kitchen is in, that’s not a go. So, I’m posting briefly,…

  • Relaxing day of vacation

    Today, we opted to go with the low-stress, unprogrammed day of vacation today. Partly, this was motivated by S still being sick, and wanting to give him rest. So, we took our sweet time getting out of jammies and into clothes this morning. Then we went for a walk around the lake that the resort…

  • What causes croup? (Other than pertussis)

    My last post hit the Internet about 30 minutes before midnight, and we were just packing in to go to bed. Clothes loaded into the washer, R (the DH, or dad – not sure if I’ve used his initial before now, but figure I might as well – at least it’s unique in our household)…

  • First full vacation day – Animal Kingdom (and a sick boy)

    We arrived in Kissimmee Florida, and found our rental townhouse, by about 5:15pm, just before sunset. It turns out that our unit is on the end, and right next to a really nice little playground, which the boys found enchanting after a long day cramped in the car. We’re just across from the swimming pool…

  • En route

    We’re in Georgia now, about 3 1/2 hours away from our destination. We stopped for dinner last night at Pizzeria Uno’s near the Potomac Mills mall in Northern Virginia. Our hope was to fill the boys tummies up with nice warm food, and have them sleep through most of the drive. Pizza was a unanimous…

  • Vacation – Launched!

    Our goal was to be on the road as soon after sunset as possible. We were on the road by 6:30, which we considered to be quite reasonable, given that we hadn’t started packing until about 4:00pm! Things we accomplished today before leaving: eating most of the perishables in the fridge closing and winterizing the…

  • Cough, cough, cough…

    J has been coughing. Again. While his big brother tends to stay healthy through all weather, and all exposures, J seems prone to catch every bug, and develop every respiratory complication possible. He caught a cold last week, and now he’s left with a residual cough. Because of his reactive airways, we are the proud…

  • Kid-centered shabbat

    This week has been a little crazy, as I’ve been covering for a colleague, and taking care of an inpatient team at the hospital.  Usually, this would be a two-week  or a four-week rotation for me, but because I’m just covering until the next attending physician takes over, it’s only 9 days – last sunday…

  • Sharing our culture

    We have been bringing the kids to Dessie Restaurant in Wheaton, MD since the first week of their arrival in the US. We used to stop there at least once monthly, sometimes twice, but we suddenly realized that it had been months since we had been there. We don’t go out to eat all that…