The Jewish holiday of Purim begins tomorrow at sundown and continues throughout the day on Tuesday. Today was a very busy day — which included rehearsal of tomorrow evening’s reading of Megillat Esther (the Scroll of Esther), going to a costume shop  get the rest of the appropriate accessories (which had a massive going-out-of-business sale!), [...]

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We got home late this evening. But for a good reason — when I went to pick up Avi at school, he was in the gym.  There was a double-header (middle school) basketball game going on.  Our school’s team is part of a league of other small private schools in the area. Some of them [...]

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I picked him up from school today. He was enthusiastically telling me about his day in disjointed fragments — as he always does. “We had science today! We learned about cows! And Sam took the red bus home from school. But Laura was it when we played tag in the gym. and you know what?  [...]

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Dateline: September 2, 2008 — 3:45pm *ring* Hello? Hello, Mr. Shiny? This is Ms. Schedule. I’m your son’s Kindergarten teacher. Ah, yes! How are you? How did the first day of school go for him? Actually, that’s why I’m calling. We have some things to discuss. Oh no! How is he? Is he okay? Did [...]

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Note: although the title of this post is “Sorry,” this post is not in any way an apology for not blogging lately. I apologize if this was your initial thought. Deal with it. Our son Avi is 5 1/2 — and is at the age where he can follow the rules of some games pretty [...]

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Avi had a note in his cubby at preschool today. I’ve scanned it in for your consideration. I will bestow fame, fortune and recognition for the first person who can correctly identify exactly what it says. Ready? Set? Go! UPDATE: Kudos to bacon aficionado othurme for his almost entirely accurate guess! Read below to see [...]

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