The Best Present
I’m looking forward to perhaps one of the best presents of all: fresh-baked cookies from two of my favorite girls!
It's a tiny miracle that you can put in a pot!
I’m looking forward to perhaps one of the best presents of all: fresh-baked cookies from two of my favorite girls!
Our chickens laid their first eggs this week. We hadn’t been checking regularly since we assumed it would be another month or so but the commotion Bence was making led us to investigate.
Cora Belle, age 4. Bence, age 6 weeks.

Uh, whoops! So I took some really cute pictures around Thanksgiving in 2011 and never managed to get them online. How about I address that? First up: a trip to the San Francisco Zoo with Henry’s first grade class.
Cake is awesome and so are little girls. Dirty face, dirty hands, dirty feet. But, still, supremely sweet.

Emma and Henry took a big step toward truly becoming Marinites (someone from Marin County, not the mineral) by competing in the 2012 Marin County Fair piano competition.
Emma’s award-winning performance of Rondo from Sonatina: Opus 36, #5 by Clementi. This clip showcases classic Emma behaviors, from the way she talks about the left-behind music, to her frustration that the music stand won’t go down and the way…
Henry’s award winning performance of Mozart by a Nose at the 2012 Marin County Fair.
I started this website a little over 10 years ago, just before Emma was born. It’s hard to believe that that tiny, dark-haired bundle of joy has grown into the smart, beautiful and funny girl you see up above.
This year we were lucky enough to have both of our major holidays (Passover and Easter) occur on the same weekend. We ate like kings and spent a lot of time enjoying traditions thousands of years old.