Tuesday, September 23, 2008

No News is Good News...

Everything is copacetic in Shmuel Dov land, thank G-d. Sam is now part of a research study that is being conducted by one of his pulmonologists. It is very interesting and I will post more about this later as I know the information will help a lot of our friends out there in cyberspace who have little guys like Sammy. Sam also started something called Hippo therapy which is a therapeutic type of horse back riding for children and adults with special needs. Sam likes it a lot.

Scott has been crazzzzzy busy at work as I am sure you can all imagine with the financial world crumbling to the ground. I have not seen him in the past 2 weeks except for on the weekend.

And me... Well,I have just been holding down the fort here in Bensonhurst... I started teaching again last Sunday. I am teaching a different class this semester and I have the same girls that I taught last year. This is their last semester. Some of them seemed happy to see me and some of them gave me the "oh know not her" look... Either way I am happy to be working again. I love teaching...

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Wedding Pics

Look how snazzy..


Look how handsome...


Look how beautiful...


Look how relaxed...


Look how buzzed...


Look how pregnant...

Monday, September 15, 2008

Adam's Wedding...

Just a quick update. This past weekend my brother Adam and his fiance, Carrie, got married. The wedding was beautiful and everyone had a great time. Of course my camera died before the ceremony so I have very few pictures. When my brother gets back from his honeymoon I'll ask him to send me more so I can post them.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Speech

This speech is worth the time.

Saturday, September 6, 2008

Bridge Over Troubled Water...

I don't know about anyone else but I happen to find music to be extremely healing, uplifting, mellowing, empowering, etc...

Sam is not doing well again, at first I thought it was probably a virus but now I am thinking maybe his feedings again. What else is new??? I can't even get into it right now or I might vomit. I am trying to concentrate on preparing for the grad course that I will be teaching in 2 weeks from (pause) tomorrow actually. Oh boy I better get crack-a-lackin... Anyway its a pretty sullen day, it's pouring, I'm depressed, Sam is in pain, and Scott is miserable. I'm sitting at my desk totally distracted and the only thing I can do is listen to Art Garfunkel belt out Bridge Over Troubled Water. I am the freaking Bridge Over Troubled Water minus the heroin (yes that's what this song is about). Quite honestly I'd rather be Mrs. Robinson.

The point is we have all been in this kind of mood before. So what song or music do you all listen to when you find yourself alone and sad during a tropical depression????

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

A Golden Weekend...

We had a really tough summer to say the least. Unfortunately we didn't get to do all of the fun summer things we planned on doing because of Sam's issues. However, our very good friends the Goldens invited us to their family's beach house for Labor Day weekend. It was really beautiful. The weather was amazing, the house was gorgeous, the beach was calm and peaceful, Sam behaved somewhat and most of all we were in amazing company. Thank you so much Goldens for giving us some great summer 2008 memories. We had a blast!



The girls walking the babies down a scenic street on our way to the beach...


Ohm Shanti...


WATCH OUT MOLLY THE LONG ISLAND SOUND MONSTER IS GOING TO GET YOU! Oh wait that's just your dad... Sorry Evan.


Dana with her new little bundle Charlie. Sooooo cute!