Back from Hiatus

In the past month I've come to the acceptance stage. As symbolic of not feeling imprisoned in Omaha, I've decided to stop numbering the days and to give my posts proper titles.

Labor Day Weekend was full of ups and downs.

On the down side Zach (who is just fine now) had a really bad headache with vomiting and a fever. We took him to the emergency room (which I wasn't happy about I think the doctor on call at our practice should have seen us at his office). We were there for 4 hours until 1:30 in the morning. Five minutes of which was actually with a doctor. Apparently, Zach just had some sort of virus, which Piper seems to have picked up today, so she didn't go to school.

On the up side, we went to a potluck Shabbat dinner at the home of a family from our Temple. I had a great time. Everyone there was really interesting, and very liberal. It was so nice to be able to speak freely about politics.

We also found a halfway decent Chinese restaurant just a mile away from us. It wasn't anywhere near as good as a good SF Chinese place, and I think it was not quite as good as Szechuan North in Northbrook, but for here...I'll take it.

School is going well for the kids. I'm happy with our decision not to put them in Jewish Day School, but today I found out that they have to skip recess if they forget their homework. It seems a bit harsh to me...But, I guess it is good to teach them to be responsible to remember their own homework.

I miss my tennis group. I start a league next Monday and I'm super nervous because I haven't played all summer except for once with Barry and he kicked my butt.

I also miss my book club. I read that Darin Strauss book, More than it Hurts You, and it was amazing. A perfect book club book because it has real discussion potential.

Not reading anything now. I have a huge stack of Harper's and some NYT Magazine to go through.

Miss you all!

Kelly