Aliya’s school created a video with some classroom footage and parent interviews to use during the Two-Way presentations and school tours. They interviewed me for the video and asked if I would be willing to talk to a reporter from the Boston Globe who was doing a story about the video. Aliya was very impressed that they spelled her name right.
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Work has begun on Aliya’s new room! Yippee!!
This accident in Utah is unbelievable. The truck went through the concrete barrier (where the people are standing on the right side of the picture), flipped over the culvert, and landed on a 25-foot wide strip of land, 1 foot away from the edge of a 200-foot high cliff. I bet the driver had to change his Underoos after that one!
We’ve had lots of visitors in the last couple of weeks. First, my brother Elijah and his girlfriend Kristin came from Tennessee for 4 days and promptly got roped into doing the morning drop-off route for me (much harder than it sounds). The third day was a snow day so they got to spend LOTS of extra time with the kids. Last week Elijah called with the news that the day after they arrived back home, he proposed!!! I can’t believe my baby brother is getting married!
The next arrival was Ben’s Aunt Aiesha who unexpectedly got a visa to come visit from Morocco. Aiesha stayed with us for a few days and was so bored that she wanted to go back to Ben’s sister’s house so she could do some work (cleaning, etc.). While she was with us we took her to the N.E. Aquarium where we had this photo op.
Another surprise arrival was Amine, the son of some friends from Morocco. He was on break from college in Quebec, so he decided to come visit us. Hopefully he wasn’t expecting a week of peace.
Our next visitors will be Grandma Ginny and Grampa B, who are coming this week to help us work on Aliya’s room.
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Norah’s nickname is “No-No”, mostly because she’s such a little maniac so we’re constantly telling her “NO!”. It’s fitting that her favorite song (Black Horse in a Cherry Tree) has a lot of “No’s” in it. A couple of weeks ago we were at Joe’s American Bar & Grill and I was feeding Norah some of my ziti. When she got sick of eating it, she stuck half a piece of ziti on her finger and started waving it back and forth and singing “No no…no, no no no…” It was so cute!
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Our other favorite activity at Joe’s is to wear the napkins.
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