Today marks Elise Morgan’s second year here and she makes use of every moment. She is a child full of life, energy and enough raging passion for all of us. Which is fortunate, because she can take it out of a person. She is a cuddly child and is perfectly content to snuggle up on [...]

Today Amelia turns 4 years old. We had a gymnastics party at the YMCA last Saturday with 13 of her school friends and we will have our little family celebration tonight. Favorite color: Pink. Or purple. But mostly pink Favorite sayings: Isn’t that wonderful?! (said in a high-pitched drama voice), That’s ridiculous!, But I don’t waaaannnnnnaaaa [...]

If you want to enter to win a trip to Paris, just follow the link. If not, all the better. I don’t need anymore competition. http://ohhappyday.com/2011/06/goes-to-paris

I haven’t been neglecting the blog per se. I just have a lot of things locked up in the brain while my big stupid life puts up roadblocks to things that I love more, like free time to write. We are staying in temporary living quarters in NJ (rented a corporate townhouse – not as schmancy [...]

There are countless things that I can’t stand about this place. Now that we are leaving, I thought it might be nice to reflect on the things that have kept me from jumping on the next plane to Boston these last 2 years (just barely).

1. The weather is nice. It is incredible hot and muggy [...]

Now that we are leaving, here are some photos of the joint we live in. They are arranged in “chronological order” but only within the set. If you look at the regular Flickr photostream, they are randomly ordered for reasons I cannot discover. And I pay for a premium account. The inside is very stark and [...]

Goose got! (That means ‘hello’. That’s the only phrase I know. Show’s over. Nothing to see here.) Leaving for the airport at 3:30am for Munich and driving to Garmisch. Elise has been super-screamy but you know what? Germany is one of those, I don’t know, places where they have a lot of beer and that’ll help. I [...]

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Just a few recent ones of a walk in the park, a birthday party and Gigglenut.

The curtain rod in my shower frequently comes crashing down, like all things in this house/country/life. The nanny, who also washes the floor, cleans the bathrooms and does the laundry like Wonder Woman in her spare time told me it fell down again and she was going to wash the curtain because, well, it was [...]

Sign up at A Bun Can Dance to get an old-fashioned penpal. Discovered via the always lovely Pia

Last week, Little Miss and I had an overnight flight from Tel Aviv to Boston. We arrived at the airport at 9pm Friday night (2pm EST) and boarded a flight that left at midnight (5pm EST). We then flew 12 hours to Newark, landing at 5am on Saturday morning. After a 3 1/2 hour layover, [...]

All of the boys have birthdays coming up, but today is the FIRST birthday of the summer birthdays. The boys all turn 39 this year. HA! Love your younger friend, Heather Happy birthday, Dan! …next up…CS!

(In lieu of another England post, which I wrote and promptly hit some button or other that made it go poof) Somewhere outside of Tel Aviv last night: Me: If I ever found out that you had illegitimate children running around, you’d be so out of here. CS: Why? I’ve been with you for a long time. They’d [...]

The day after arriving to beautifully warm weather, we meet up with my Aunt Lynne and Uncle David at The Three Tuns for a bit of dinner. It was very good to see them, even if it was for only a couple of hours, and Amelia was fairly well-behaved. We quickly learned that we were [...]

I’ll be leaving the house at 4:30 am for London (that’s 9pm for all of my peeps in EST) and I’ll be in the UK before you have your morning coffee. Our first true ‘week away’ vacation (or 2 weeks in this case) since we went to Anguilla in November of 2005. I’m trying to pack [...]

We went to see the Papal Mass yesterday in Jerusalem. There are a few exciting details which may suckily fall under “things I can’t talk about” because of CS’s job. So I’ll find out and tell you what I can. I’m sure I CAN tell you that I have a sunburn. The rest may have [...]

Here they are and every one of them is of her. We didn’t have anything at the house so there are no photos of dinners and such. There was an Easter egg hunt at the Ambassador’s Residence in the morning and then some nice friends inviited us over for dinner that night. The short of it [...]

Milad Mejeed is Arabic for Merry Christmas. There are no words for Merry Christmas in Hebrew because Christmas is one tiny step above illegal here. Anyhow…. Holiday Table: Chicken liver pate Tomato & goat cheese tart Sundried tomato & basil dip Kalamata olive & parsely dip Lasagna (meat and cheese, no veg) Roast beef Roasted potatoes Peas with thyme and butter Flourless chocolate cake Apple and pear [...]

Do you like it? I like it. I’ll have to find my blog roll, clean up the top links and change the photos, but change is good.

Some people (DAN!) have bitched that I haven’t been blogging enough. And you know, they’re right (DAN!) But you know what I have been doing? I’ll tell you what I’ve been doing. 1. Working (thankfully, updates to come) 2. Unpacking (still) 3. Finally cooking decent meals now that I have pots and pans. 4. Getting daily visits from various [...]