CafeNeves

Things are moving along here in Levittown as the seasons march forward. Fall is here and the air is getting crisp, school is in full swing, football season is already into week 7 and the World Series is getting ready to start. Earlier in the month I celebrated my birthday with a nice dinner at [...]

 
I am in the process of adding several hundred photos to the galleries going back as far as October 2008. So now all the holiday pics from last year are uploaded as well as once from Auntie Jent’s birthday party, Easter/Passover, first day of Mommy & Me for Marissa, Marissa’s 2nd birthday party, first day of camp, [...]

 
Wow! That summer went fast and it is back to school for both kids and mommy! Dylan started 3rd grade last week (the 9th) and Marissa started pre-school today! In addition, Deb is back to work with the kids coming in for the first time today as well (she setup her room last week). Throw in [...]

Tech news site Ars Technica has a really good article titles Raising a Healthy Gamer. Everything it says, to me, is common sense but I see all to often that common sense is not required to be a parent. Here is an excerpt from the article.
The easiest way to be a good parent to [...]

… and we haven’t had a BBQ yet! That’s right, no BBQ in August so far. We finally had a weekend with nobody coming over two weeks ago and this past weekend was just Aunty Jent on Sat. and my mother on Sunday which meant nothing big needed to be done.
I got around to doing [...]

That seemed to be the theme this weekend as we continued our streak of having people over on the weekend this summer. Every weekend in July we have entertained. Not sure how it ended up that way, but it did. This weekend was a double whammy as we had Deb’s family here on Sat. and [...]

Well, it’s been a few weeks since i last posted an update so I figured it was time for one.
Dylan has been in camp since June 30th and is loving it. He get’s to go swimming twice a day and do all kinds of fun things. Deb has been workign part time at the camp [...]

..come the most interesting things. Marissa has learned not only how to say “wow”, “Uh-oh”, “Oh No!” and other similar phrases, but she knows how to use them and deliver them. For instance the other day she was sitting on my lap in the living room when a passing thunderstorm causes the lights to go [...]

Hi everyone! Welcome to our family blog. If you are looking for photos from both Mrs. Shapiro’s 2006-07 class and Mrs. Basile’s 2007-08 class then simply click here. It will open up to a new page with the two albums, one for each year, and all the photos we have.

I also have a bunch of [...]

GamerDad used my story about Dylan and I playing Lego Star Wars together for his column on “What They Play”. Very cool if you ask me, to be selected along with Tony Hawk and Chris Taylor.