More Than Four Sides

Category: Family & Friends

  • We got a dog!

    Welcome to Boxer! So far, he’s been a very easy – going addition to the family (he’s asleep at the foot of our bed as I write this).

  • I have OKCupid to thank…

    For my daughter finding and marrying the man who suits her to a T. and apparently, the data of the OKCupid algorithms predicted their compatibility and bliss pretty well, as they scored around 95%, according to her. It’s a funny thing to see your daughter get married, and then to see her happily interacting with…

  • Leaving town…

    I’m going out of town for three whole days. This is the second time that I’ve left the boys since we brought them home, and J is not liking it at all (S is so independent, he minds less, although he did express the odd concern that I might be flying to somewhere unsafe, i.e.…

  • A Very Difficult Sunday

    This past sunday was the first day of Hebrew School for J. He was not excited. We tried, as always, to preview this transition for him. We told him about the plans the day before, but he wasn’t too interested in hearing it. We woke him up on Sunday morning, in plenty of time for…

  • Second week of school, interrupted by concussion!

    Our first week of school, our new kindergartener came down with a viral illness, and had to stay home for two days. Luckily, he returned to school without difficulty, and this week, for him, went smoothly. Not so much for his big brother. I got a call in the middle of the afternoon from the…

  • Kindergarten, interrupted

    Well, we were going along so well, with Days One and Two successfully completed, and no major meltdowns. We were enjoying a lovely evening at home yesterday, with both boys playing so nicely together, and painting lovely pictures. We were getting dinner started, and J climbed into my lap and said, “My head hurts.” I…

  • First day of school – the afternoon

    So getting on the bus in the morning went surprisingly well, and i had promised J that I would pick him up early from day care. I approached the multipurpose room with some trepidation, half expecting an exhausted and upset little boy. To my delight, all the kids were seated together at the far end…

  • First Day of School

    We have been anticipating this day for nearly a year.  J started Kindergarten. But, he’d been denying that fact since the first day of last year at his preschool, when he entered the Aryot (Lions in Hebrew) class, and we knew that this was his last year at his beloved TI-ECC! (If you live in…

  • Restorative power of the Beach

    I love the beach. and, we hadn’t gone last summer at all, and this summer was looking to be a repeat. I grew up at the ocean, for the most part.  I suppose it really started in Sri Lanka, when I was four or five, and we were at the ocean, with reportedly strong waves…

  • Africa! Ethiopia!!

    I’ve been immersed in the connection of our kids to the continent of Africa, for the past month or so. Of course, they are never not connected to their place of birth, but, in the same way that my own connection to Sri Lanka, the birthplace of my father, has ebbed and flowed in my…