Finally… we are up to the last week of 2012! Let’s start with Christmas Eve. Of course there was the traditional Christmas Eve program in New Jersey. With Matt’s sister and her family joining the East Coast ranks this year, there were lots of extra performers. Ella played her violin and despite our wild applause,…

This week we had our annual gingerbread house making day. I made the big house above, and the girls each worked on their own individual little houses: The finished products: This week I also got to go into Ella’s classroom and help out with the class holiday party. Somehow I have managed to be in…

It was a mostly quiet December week around here, at least until The Elf Emergency of 2012 occurred. On the day Buddy created this M&M message for the girls (by the way, you should know that Buddy steals all his ideas from other elves posting on Facebook and Pinterest), Lucy touched him. Anybody who is…

Claire @ Lincoln Center. The director of Claire’s ballet studio arranged an outing to see a performance of The Nutcracker by the New York City Ballet, so I turned it into a mother/daughter outing. Claire on the subway platform. We rode the train into the city and then took the subway uptown. By the way,…

Heading off to school. Every day Lucy insists on taking a backpack with her in the morning just like the big girls. Inside the backpack is a lunch box. She follows me around the kitchen in the morning filling it up with every snack food item imaginable. The Christmas cards arrived. The Santa letters have…

The last time the entire Woodbury clan was together was over two years ago. We tried to organize reunions in both 2011 and 2012, but could never quite decide on a location or date that worked for everyone. A few e-mails had been bounced back and forth trying to get something on the calendar for…

So remember that election we had (doesn’t it seem like a million years ago now)? These pictures are from that week and the following week. November 6th was Election Day, but I was so excited for it that it sort of felt a little bit like Christmas. I love politics. I hate the divisiveness and…

His and hers hurricane prep: In anticipation of Sandy’s arrival Matt stocked up on non-perishables like beef jerky, while my main concern was making sure every device in the house was fully charged. This was hurricane week. We spent Sunday making last minute storm preparations, Monday at home waiting for the worst of the storm…

This was the week where I tried to cram in all the Halloween I could before October 31st, because I had the sneaking suspicion that a storm named Sandy might just cancel trick-or-treating for us this year (by the way, my suspicion turned out to be spot on). On Friday I took Lucy to the…

A quiet week. Just a few pictures and even fewer words. It’s looking a lot like fall. Most nights after the girls go to bed, I will hear the faint sound of rustling pages and when I go to inspect I will see this at the top of the stairs. I purchased Ella a reading…