We got 4 inches of snow 2 days before Halloween. We lost power, had that come back on, shoveled and scraped ice of off the windshield, lost power again for a bit, and donned winter coats for the Halloween festivities. I’m done with winter 2011- 2012 already and we haven’t even “fallen back” for DST [...]

I’ll just ignore the part in which the date between the last post and this post is so far apart and move on. It’ll be fun! Play along with me, won’t you? And so… We were contemplating our pack-out in Israel for our move to the not-so-balmy New Jersey shores. As part of our trip, a [...]

A few photos to tide you over as I have been a very bad blogger and I haven’t posted anything in a very long time. I am working, taking care of the kids, and that’s about it. We leave here on September 1st and I’ve been spending my free online time looking for a place [...]

I loved Germany. We vacationed in Garmisch-Partenkirschen in Bavaria at Edelwiess and – How lovely! How picturesque! People were really nice to us even if we didn’t speak the same language! And pork! And beer! And cheese! Unfortunately, we only had a week to spend on vacation and agreed that we wished we had an [...]

The way things ought to be.

The way things are.

Hope everyone celebrated St. Patrick’s Day with their own special style!

After being harrassed and cajoled for photos, (you know who you are!), here they are. I’m sure you’ll look at every single one of them. In painful detail. Right? Right? I’m expecting a full report. (Again, you know who you are!) As always, the link to all photos is this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shards. Scroll through the whole photostream [...]

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Currently 10lbs 9 oz and 23 1/2 inches long. The math - she’s gained 2lbs 4oz and grown 3 inches in a month. She eats a lot. She fusses a lot. She doesn’t sleep more than 2 hours at a time. Ever. If everything goes well with the medical clearance, passport and visa, we should be [...]

A cease-fire had been declared between Israel and Gaza. That is not to say that everything is entirely peaceful in that area because there are still rockets and air strikes, so I’d say it’s a bust. I’m unclear as to why this is being counted as a “war” as it is my general observation that [...]

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 [...]

Amelia was on the floor playing with some little finger puppets. I noticed that she was picking each one up and placing them down in a neat little row. I thought “Wow. That kind of spatial organization is pretty forward for an 11 month old. Maybe she is advanced.” Then she looked at me, picked up [...]

I’ve uploaded some more photos that range from as soon as yesterday and as far away as 2 months ago. Here are some of my favorites.

All Amelia Photos Amelia is now crawling and at a very fast clip. She is also in her clingy stage, meaning I can’t be out of [...]

If you would like a device to take decent photos with, you might want to look into a machine called a CAMERA. There is a machine called a CELL PHONE, but you shouldn’t expect great SLR quality photos with such a machine. Anyone complaining that their CELL PHONE doesn’t take great photos like a CAMERA [...]