Miriam on April 30th, 2009

It’s 10:22 PM. Time to be sure everything is as it’s supposed to be.
Boy: Sleeping in crib
Boy’s left ear: Infected
Nephew: Sleeping in Pack & Play
Pack & Play: In master bathroom
Niece: Sleeping (FINALLY!) in “big girl bed” on the floor of the girls’ room
Niece from 8-something to 10:18 PM: Crying, banging on bed, swinging legs in the [...]

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Miriam on April 27th, 2009

You thought I was exaggerating about YS’s reading, didn’t you. You didn’t think she’d really read the New York Times or Biblical Archaeology Review, or that she finished the Chronicles of Narnia and is almost finished with the Little House books (yes, those are on an easier reading level than Narnia, but we didn’t start [...]

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Miriam on April 26th, 2009

The ants are starting to grow on me. Not literally (at least not yet). I mean, I’m starting to get used to them, and to even like them a little. They’re kinda cute, you know? And such perseverance! Tiny little specks of bustling activity, scuttling hither and thither and never getting tired or giving up. [...]

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Ok, to be fair, I emerged yesterday also, so I could go to the doctor. But I wasn’t really aware of anything then. I think I was better off that way. Here’s what I discovered during my brief foray downstairs just now:

The entire house stinks.
The rodent cages stink.
The guinea pig was out of food, and [...]

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Most of them are not lying in bed listening to their kids singing “חד גדיא” downstairs while eating their dinner that their father bought and defrosted for them. But I AM. Want to know why? Because I have strep. Haha. Ha. Funny one, God. No, really. I can’t stop laughing. Except I can’t even start [...]

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Miriam on April 1st, 2009

So we had our Purim seudah this year at G’s Aunt C’s house, and I think I gained my Pesach weight early. Heheh. Those Rabinowitz women sure are talented with the food. Excellent food, excellent company, and plenty of cousin action, for adults as well as kiddies. But none of that is my favorite part, not [...]

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