Wendy's Excellent Adventure

One of the recurring memes I have with my mother involves teasing her about her propensity to prepare for travel so far in advance of her ac...

Zeke, being the responsible older brother, is often tasked with looking out for Josie.  We don't ask or expect him to supervise her or ...

As I mentioned yesterday, I don't have an office, just a cube.  It's tucked in the back of the room, fairly secluded, roomy and comf...

So the new job is going well.  Everyone has been very welcoming, I've had an actual orientation with an explanation of what it is they ...

J's surgery went well, and he's recovering nicely.  The weekend was a bit rough -- he was incredibly sore, and trying to take care ...

And now I get to clean up the mess... It's been a lovely four days.  I've had time to myself, done household chores in peace, wa...

This is exactly what I'm wearing today. I'm getting pretty good at this housewife biz.  Today after dropping the kids off at sch...

My friend Lisa has recently been going through what I feel like I go through at least monthly -- that sense of, Good God, get these kids awa...

This morning Josie woke up at 5 in the morning, screaming her face off. She's teething again.  Finally, because I was getting a little...

This is the saga of J's worker's comp claim.  Or, non-claim, as it turns out. Some time in mid-August or early September, J came h...

For Zeke, one of the consequences of turning three is that, in addition to being a big boy who almost always remembers to use the potty, who...

Zeke is turning three on Sunday. I could do another Animoto video, as I've done in the past on the kids' birthdays, but I feel lik...

One of the unfortunate side effects of having two small children is that any telephone conversation with me is bound to be either confusing,...

You people are a bunch of serious task-masters.  By an almost 3-1 margin (and that's not counting the votes cast to let me know that I...

So I finally, finally, finally finished the Alexander Hamilton bio .  At 4 in the morning last night when I couldn't sleep and I had alr...

I've been doing a lot of blogging in the middle of the night lately. It beats lying in bed and tossing and turning and thinking about ...

One of the coolest things about my school in Israel was the Hockey Marathon.  Every year, I think in February, the entire high school would ...

Growing up all over and moving every few years meant that I went to lots of schools.  Lots and lots of schools.  Eight before I went to co...

Shopping is one of the rare times I have to myself, like, ever.  So while I actually don't like shopping all that much, my trips to the ...

It's such a cliche, but Jesus Christ, moving sucks.  As many times as I've done it, it never gets any easier.  At least with this on...