Holidays

Somehow they keep sneaking up on us a little bit.  We knew Easter was coming.  We would need to dye eggs and we would need to purchase egg dye.  Fastforward to egg dying day and Andrew is calling all over upper Manhattan trying to find a place that sells egg dying kits. One week later, Saturday [...]

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Leading the ‘parade’

We went to a Martin Luther King day march today. Organized fully by some very inspiring 8th graders with whom Andrew is acquainted.  Blitzen was not as interested in the speeches at the historic stops along the march route (all given by kids) as she was in leading the ‘parade’.  She had her scooter with [...]

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But I won’t be living here next year

We took down the tree.  And I knew that it would be a sad moment for Blitzen — she really really loved the tree and its ornaments. To make our transition go a little bit more smoothly, we painted some pinecones with glitter paint and hung them in the window as winter decorations.  So we’d [...]

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Blitzen and Christmas talk

We read the Grinch this week.  I asked Blitzen if she knew about the Grinch.  Her reply “The Grinch is mean, he stole Christmas but all the people sang ‘whoo-whoo-whoo’ and then he gave Christmas back”. We have a lovely (and large for us) tree.  Blitzen wanted to know the story behind each ornament and [...]

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Holiday cookies and Christmas tears

A very dear friend came over this afternoon to help us make holiday cookies.  I had it well planned — I did things that I never would have done 5 weeks ago.  I bought icky premade store dough, I bought chemical icing in a can, I happily resigned myself to a big old mess and [...]

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