| 29 November 2007 |
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After school we take the kids to go swimming at the Boys & Girls Club in the Haight-Ashbury.
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| 28 November 2007 |
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Lila queued up for the after-school guitar class. The Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) pays for a lot of cultural language and art programs that aren't provisioned for by the city and state.
Lila, tired, after swimming, leaning on the Papa. She's wearing her new swim cap.
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| 27 November 2007 |
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Today I'm chaperoning Isaac's class on a field trip through Golden Gate Park. Here we leave the school, walking through the city streets to the near-by park.
With maps in hand, navigation practice brings us to Kezar Stadium, where we take a running break.
Moving on to the first public children's playground in the USA, Isaac takes a younger child under his wing - so to speak - down the concrete slide.
That evening I treat Lila to dinner at the restaurant of her choice: Zante Indian Pizza. She's experimenting with sucking fennel candies and a sweet lahsi through the straw at the same time.
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| 26 November 2007 |
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No, it's not a horror movie; it's Rose working on a pomegranite.
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| 25 November 2007 |
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The kids help out gardening. Every week we try to fill up our green compost container for the city to haul away. It takes a bit of focus to remember. More than one Sunday evening has seen us scurrying around with rakes in hand to get everything ready by dawn the next morning.
We have Bubbie, Zadie, auntie Pamela, Zofia, and Dziadziu over for Thanksgiving dinner number 4.
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| 24 November 2007 |
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It's Thanksgiving dinner number 3 at Bubbie & Zadie's place in West Portal.
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| 23 November 2007 |
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Isaac and cousin Siegmund check out the new 24-inch monitor I got yesterday. They're most impressed. I, of course, spend most of the day in the kitchen and don't get to enjoy my own toy.
The extended family sitting in our eating nook enjoying Thanksgiving dinner number 2.
Lila feeds formula to cousin Analie with a bottle. She was so excited about this; it's all I heard about for a few hours.
All the guests gone, the dishes running through the dishwasher, I get a quiet moment to sit and gaze at that new 24-inch Soyo monitor, seen at left, PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz at the right.
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| 22 November 2007 |
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I'm making my Sephardic flat-iron brisket meal for Thanksgiving dinner number 1, which is going to be held across the bay at a friend's house. We start early in the morning, all of us doing what we can. Here the ladies open up stewed tomatoes, while Isaac browns onions and garlic in a saucepan (under close supervision).
The kids help out with the new baby, the youngest of six.
Thanksgiving dinner number 1; a combination of many people's efforts.
Lila, taking off her shirt, does a bit of the phantom of the opera.
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| 21 November 2007 |
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We're in the San Francisco Zoo with Isaac (left) and Tobias (right). The kids do look like a bunch of meerkats, don't they?
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| 20 November 2007 |
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It's earthquake preparadness day at the kids' elementary school. Here Principal Willem Vroegh makes the announcement via the school intercom. Ms Wanda looks on.
Isaac's class practices a duck-and-cover drill. That's Ms B, at right.
Once evacuated from the school building the kids are herded together into the playground, everyone is accounted for, and search teams re-enter the school to find any missing or injured students.
Parents or guardians must check out their kids after a big earthquake, so that nobody goes missing in the confusion. We have the older kids participating in an escort system.
As we exit the MUNI Castro station I'm struck by the beauty of this lit tree. Twilight is so magical.
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| 19 November 2007 |
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It's Winter Carnival sing-along practice in the bungalow. That's Lila in the pink.
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| 18 November 2007 |
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The kids are watching cousin Jessica submerging into the ball bin at the Play Café, where she's asked to have her birthday party.
A panorama of the Play Café.
Lila got a unicorn painted on her face, with a rainbow-colored mane.
Lila & Isaac, who got an orca painted on his face, take care of Analie.
Back at the cousins' house there's a small jumper, in which all four kids climb.
Rose and middle sister Mindy.
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