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Escape to Baltimore
We escaped our unpowered, un-air-conditioned home for a day in baltimore’s inner harbor. Why Baltimore? The main reason was that I had to make hospital rounds and see my patients. So, dad took the boys and walked from the hospital parking garage to the inner harbor, while I did my work. Once I’d finished, I…
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Pepco’s self-service app
Pepco, our utility company, has an app to track outages. Today, our status shows 2 customers are without service! Really? Just us and one other house? Actually, it’s impossible to tell from the app, because it shows multiple triangles, each listing up to 5 outages on our street. So, we just wait…
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Power outage
We’re at the 84 hours mark without power since Friday night’s violent thunderstorm, now given the elegant term derecho by the weather people. Life contracts – we spent hours over the weekend in the clear water of our non-circulating swimming pool, using the power of our arms and legs to circulate the water and prevent…
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Why Are American Kids So Spoiled? : The New Yorker
Why Are American Kids So Spoiled? : The New Yorker. this book review hits so close to home!! Madeline Levine, a psychologist who lives outside San Francisco, specializes in treating young adults. In “Teach Your Children Well: Parenting for Authentic Success” (HarperCollins), she argues that we do too much for our kids because we overestimate…
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Random connections and memories of a 3-yr-old
We got pizza tonight up in Olney after picking up S from our kind friend who brought him home from the bus. On the way home from a satisfying, but slightly loud dinner, I stopped for gas, and J piped up “We went to the moon doctor when I was sick!” I thought “Huh?”, and…
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Fun start of camp
S started camp today – check out this smile!! I think he’s going to have a fun summer.
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Lighten Up!
Lighten Up!. I happened upon this post “by accident” – I want to bookmark this and go back and read it often!! Thanks, MOM!
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I’m itchy now!
I was really hoping that after two exhausting weekends out of town, and a busy week in between last week, that today we could finally settle back into the normal routines. That hope was shattered when I looked down at J’s scalp on returning home, and discovered that he had a nice infestation of head…
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Family camp
The words “family camp” have strong reverberations for me. I spent most summers of my childhood at some church-affiliated family camp; the United Methodists have a strong tradition of camping, and that was my affiliation through most of my growing up. We signed up for this “forever families” camp with high expectations. We hoped that…
