Boys at ATA and Cold Baseball

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Yesterday, the boys went with Rachel to school. Since they are remote, they can do school from anywhere.  They went with Rachel to school and got on to their classes from there.  On their break, they played tennis.  For lunch, Rachel took them to Einstein Bros Bagels and picked up bagels.

This morning, Evan had two baseball games.  They started at 8am.  It was 50 degrees, drizzling and very windy.  It made for a fairly miserable temperature for the game.  Evan played third in the first game.  In the top of the first, he fielded a ball cleanly but then the throw was not good and he got an error. He told me that he couldn't feel his hands when he was throwing the ball.  He made up for it in the bottom of the inning.  With two outs and runners on second and third, he lined a single over the shortstop to score two runs.  In the second inning, he fielded a ball with a runner at third.  The runner broke for home and he made a perfect throw home to get the runner.  In the second game, he caught the whole game.  He did very well, though he only had one opportunity to throw a runner out.  The throw wasn't as good as last week and he didn't get the runner.  Unfortunately the game ended in a loss on a wild pitch.  Evan did his best to try to stop it.  He then got the ball and flipped to the pitcher with what seemed like plenty of time to tag the runner from third.  But the runner managed to avoid the tag and scored the winning run.

We came home and got Noah and then met the Ramatis for some food at the Grove.  We had not seen them since Evan's Bar Mitzvah.

In the late afternoon, there was a block party (with masks) with pumpkin carving going on.  It was nice talking to the neighbors.

We picked up food from Via 313 for us and Subway for the boys for dinner.

The boys are upstairs playing and we're going to watch a movie.

Until next time...

Long Bike Ride

Late morning, Evan and I went for a bike ride.   He wanted to go for a long ride and ride to Wholy Bagel.   We ended up riding for 17.2 miles.  We went to the bagel shop, around the trail at the park, to see the old house, and back home.  We had a nice time.

We took it easy this afternoon.

Around 5:00 we dropped Evan off at Grandma and Papa's house and then went to HEB.

Morry, Noah, and I ate dinner at home and then walked to pick up Evan.

Now the boys are playing video games. 

It's their last week to relax some before school starts on Monday.

Here are some pictures from today.

Football and Hanukkah

This morning Morry and I took Chewie for a walk. 

Then, Morry ran out to pick up some bagels.

A little before noon Noah's friend Jake and his dad Alex came over to watch football.

I left around 12:30 to tutor and got home around 2:30.

The boys and men had a good time hanging out.

I took the boys to Sunday school at 4pm and then picked up a few things at Walgreens.

There was a Hanukkah party at Sunday school at 5pm.

Morry, Grandma, and Papa, met me there for the party.

Noah's group preformed a Hanukkah play.  Noah was the king and he really hammed it up.  Everyone enjoyed that.  The kids played dreidel, bingo, and more.  There were latkes.  It was quite a good turn out.

From there, we went to dinner at Maudie's with Grandma and Papa.

The last few days Evan has been complaining about his finger hurting.  He poked it with a paper clip at school on Thursday.  Today it was swollen and hurting even more, so Morry took him to an urgent care place after dinner.

They are on their way home now.  The doctor said Evan's finger is infected and prescribed some antibiotics.

Here are some pictures from today.

Clean House

This morning we walked Noah to school and then I left to teach.

While I was gone, the cleaning people came to our house.

Our plan was to meet for bagels after I finished work, but the cleaning people were still there.  So, I picked up our bagels on the way home and we ate on the back porch.

At 1:30 we had an appointment with a potential new psychologist for Noah. We really liked her and he'll have his first appointment on Monday.

As soon as we got home we walked to get Noah from school.

At 3:30 Noah and I went to the community center for a Rosh Hashanah party.  There was a good turnout. I would guess around 25-30 kids were there.  Noah wanted to stay the whole time so Grandma came since I needed to leave for tutoring.

Grandma walked Noah home after the party.

Noah had football practice today and he had a good time.

I got home around 7:30 and we had tacos for dinner.

Now the boys are getting ready for bed.

A Night Out

This morning Noah threw a massive fit about going to school.  We made him go to school anyway.  We didn't want him missing any more days.

Morry had a meeting at the house this morning.

We got our bagels for lunch.

After lunch, we got pedicures as part of our weekly challenges for my blog.  Morry had never had one before.  When we got to the spa, there were 2 other men there getting pedicures too.  We had a nice time.

We walked to pick up the kids from school.

Around 5pm Morry dropped off Evan at a friends house, to then go to the kid's birthday party at Main Event.  Then, he dropped Noah off at Grandma and Papa's house.

Morry and I went to a fundraising dinner for Camp Kesem.  A friend of mine's dad purchased a table for the event and she invited us along with a few other couples.  It was a nice evening.

We picked up Evan at the friend's house around 10pm.  They had a great time.  Then, we got Noah at Grandma and Papa's.

Here are a few pictures from today.

What's My Wine

This morning we walked to school without Lizzy.  Poor Lizzy.

I took my car in for an oil change.   Morry picked me up and we went to bagels.  As we were finishing eating I go the call that the car was ready.

We walked to pick up the kids from school.

Around 4pm Morry took the boys to the school to meet their friends.

Then, a little before 5pm he picked them up and brought them over to Grandma and Papa's house.  They were going to have dinner together and then go to services.

Morry and I went to the What's My Wine VIP Launch.  There's an app that helps you figure out what wine to buy.  They were having a launch party and invited me.  Morry and I thought it would be  chance to learn more about wine and figure out what we liked.

It was pretty crowded.  We only got through one of the stations that had 7 different wines to try.  They were okay.  We chatted with a few people there.  I spent a lot of time talking to another Instagrammer who had interest in perhaps getting an app made.

We left the party around 7:15pm.

From there, we picked up food for dinner at Madam Mam's.

Evan's friend, Reid, from baseball, met us there and we took him back to our house to spend the night.

We got home and a little while later Grandma and Papa dropped the boys off.

Now everyone is ready for bed.  Evan and Reid are set up in the game room in sleeping bags.

Here are some pictures from tonight.

Grand Opening

This morning we walked the kids to school.

I was invited to the grand opening of the Soft Surroundings store here in Austin.  I brought Salina with me.  When we arrived, at about the time the store was opening, the line was around the corner.  They were giving away a free swag bag to the first 100 people.  Since we were on the media list we didn't have to wait in the line and got our own swag bags that were reserved for us.  It was a nice store, but we were by far the youngest people there.  There were lots of gray haired women and many walkers and canes - I'm not exaggerating.  The store is sort of like a Chico's or Coldwater Creek.  There were a lot of casual, comfortable, flowy types of clothing and some home accessories and beauty products.  They had champaign and macarons too.  Salina and I had a nice time.  We got a tour and one of the makeup consultants put some mascara and lip gloss on us.

On my way home I picked up the race packets for the Brain Power 5k on Sunday.

Morry got bagels for us while I was gone and we both got home around the same time.

We walked to get the kids and then Evan went to Wade's.  They later went to an indoor trampoline place.

For dinner, we ate at home and then went to the Food Trailer Night.  The only dessert they had was ice cream truck type popsicles, so we decided to go somewhere else for dessert.

We walked back home.  On the way home we chatted with some neighbors who were outside.

We ended up going to Cow Tipping Creamery for dessert. It was good, but Noah didn't eat much of his.

The boys are getting ready for bed now.

Here are some pictures from today.

Homemade Bagels and Baseball

For lunch we went over to Aaron and Mandy's house.  Mandy made bagels and we all ate lunch together.

From there, we went to look at a few open houses.

Evan had baseball practice this afternoon.

Papa helped Noah on his bike.

For dinner we ate at Burger Fi.

The boys are getting ready for bed now.

Breakfast for Dinner

This morning we stayed at home.  I got some things done around the house. 

Late morning, Evan and I went to play in the cul-de-sac and invited his friend Nathan out to play too.  I talked with Nathan's mom while the boys played and then they went inside to play.  I went back home and Evan ended up spending most of the day at Nathan's house.  It sounds like they had a great time together.

For dinner, we had bagels (that I made), fruit, and breakfast tacos.

Calvin has been coming out a lot more today.  He got some leftover scrambled eggs and was out long enough to eat a few in the kitchen before Lizzy got to them.

Now, the boys are getting ready for bed.

Bagels

This morning the boys, Lizzy, and I took a walk to the elementary school.  Everyone had a good time.

When we got back I got ready for tutoring.

The boys came with me to tutoring today.  Since they were good, I let them pick out a place to get snacks.  It was Noah's turn to choose and he chose Sweet Caroline's.  So, we stopped there on the way home.

This afternoon I made bagels. I found a recipe online. They turned out pretty good, but next time I'll use less salt.

We had burgers for dinner and then took a walk.

Morry is reading to the boys now.