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July 15th, 2010

Mi Casa Es Su Casa

Although my knowledge of Spanish does not exceed the vocabulary used in Dora the Explorer, this past Friday afternoon, when we arrived at Rabbi Bentzion Klatzko's house for Shabbos and he told me, "Mi casa es su casa," even I knew what he was talking about.

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October 29th, 2009

Fill 'er Up

My younger daughter has been trying to be exactly like my older daughter for about as long as she's been trying to be. Which, by the way, is a precursor to complete and utter awesomeness (and incidentally what I did as a kid with my older sister). This monkey-see-monkey-do business produces children that are either twice as nice or double trouble - depending on how my older daughter is behaving - but sometimes it goes too far.

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