About Me

Washington, DC, United States
Heather Capell Bramble is mother of two kaleidoscoping kids, Jonah and Vera. She has a magical kaleidoscope, often in her back pocket, and it usually helps her turn her normally chaotic life into something beautiful. Her goal is to have as much fun and try to be as happy as they can while on the uncharted journey of motherhood. This means doing lots of arts and crafts, going on crazy adventures, and celebrating all kinds of holidays - and yes, trying to laugh along the way!

Friday, July 3, 2015

#LivingTheDream

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, I Have A Dream speech
President Obama’s, Dreams from my Father
William Shakespeare’s, A Midsummer’s Night Dream
Sting’s, Dream of the Blue Turtles
Edgar Allen Poe’s, A Dream
Pablo Picasso’s, La Reve (the Dream)
Broadway’s, Dream Girls
The movie, Requiem for a Dream
The American Dream

Dreaming Big, Dreaming Often
Tomorrow is Independence Day.  I wanted to post this on July 1st - but I couldn't get it done.  So I am posting it from the Jersey Shore.  Still not totally done - but done enough.  Sometimes you just have to post it, to get it out.  This is a long one.  I apologize in advance.

Dreams. There are so many dreams

I have wanted to sit down and write a blog post for quite a while now.  The problem is I am so busy doing, working, playing, enjoying, being, hating, yelling, yawning, crying, laughing – it just never stops.  Sometimes I find myself writing blog posts in my head.  Often even dreaming of them. Sometimes I use my Facebook status as a short blog post.  I haven’t ventured in the world of Twitter yet, but my guess is that if I did, I would be tweeting blog post blurts in 140 characters when my phone would actually work, I really need a new phone. But I digress.

Finally, it is summer.  Post unofficial start of summer – Memorial Day weekend.  Post the vernal equinox. And right before July 4th weekend.  It has been long time since we last checked in – since December 1st. We have all dreamed many a dream since then.

So much has changed.  Or has it.  My dream of having a happy, healthy and satisfied life, full of meaning and love – that has stayed the course.  But the scenery, props, people, places and things – they are constantly changing.  It is often exhausting, exhilarating, exciting and exasperating – but it is living – and it is life.

This past Friday, June 26, 2015, Jocelyn, Jonah, Vera and I had an experience, a moment, a blog worthy event, almost dreamlike.  Funny how these things happen at just the right time.  We “adventured” with a group of mostly new and some old friends to the White House.  Yes, the White House.  And yes, there is a backstory:

The Backstory
This year we joined Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Synagogue in Bethesda, MD.  Jonah began “Gan” – kindergarten level Hebrew School.  I had heard about Rabbi Fred at Adat Shalom since I had moved to Washington, DC in 1998, but I was committed to joining a synagogue within the city limits.  Finally last summer, after I had been shul shopping for more than 16 years, Jocelyn urged me to commit to a synagogue.  At the same time, a good friend of mine was also looking for a shul and he checked out Adat Shalom and said to me something like, “ Listen Heather – you need to go check out Adat Shalom – you know how we keep talking about what we want in a synagogue – well this is it – and it isn’t too far!!!”  So I did, and I was sold.  It is the kind of place I have always dreamed about and truly the first synagogue that I finally felt “home” when I walked in the door (and I have been to synagogues all over the world from Beijing to Rio, from Los Angeles to Provincetown, from Curacao to Napoli – I go to synagogues.).   Adat Shalom isn’t perfect – nothing ever is – but it works for us.  Jonah LOVED Gan this year. Vera LOVED tot shabbot.  We have a great group of friends and it is wonderful to see them every Shabbot (Saturday from 9am-2pm).  It is a community and we are lucky to be a part of it.  My untraditional family fits in and that is what is so special.

This past Friday, we joined The Jewish Multiracial Network (JMN) on the tour of The White House.  We were introduced to JMN through good friends from Adat Shalom. JMN describes itself as,

JMN was founded in 1997 by a group of parents who wanted to provide a community and supportive network for multiracial Jewish families. JMN’s initial programming efforts sought to provide Jewish children of color and their families a space where their dual identities would not be challenged — through the organization of social gatherings along the East Coast and the development of an annual retreat, which continues to this day. As our organization has grown, we have expanded our impact to include adult Jews of Color and members across the continental United States. What started over 15 years ago as a group of just a handful of families has now grown into a thriving community of hundreds of members.

Our friends asked us if we were interested in joining JMN and if we would possibly help to organize a JMN group tour to the White House.  I took me about a millisecond to answer, YES!!!

If you are reading this blog, you know I am a bit passionate about stuff, and a bit nutty… and I may have even written about this crazy idea before – but ever since we voted for President Obama in 2012 (see here, here and here), I have had this dream that Jonah and Vera would meet him  - like in real life.  I know that is totally weird and cliché but I just had this feeling.  The next best thing is going to the White House – as in inside the White House – President Obama’s White House. As many of you know, we all went The White House Easter Egg Roll in 2013  (courtesy of our awesome friend Emily Hecht-McGowan and The Family Equality Council) and then I went again with the kids this year (Thanks to the Parker family). I have to admit, I have become a little “obsessed” with the dream – but hey, you just never know!

I told my friend we were super excited about JMN and I was on board to do whatever she needed to help with the tour.  I also confided in her my crazy dream… And she didn’t judge me, she didn’t ridicule me, I think she even got it.  It is a big a deal that we have a black President of the United States, who believes in the same principles of fairness, equality and liberty in which we believe.  One Shabbot morning while our boys were in Gan and we were talking, she said to me – How about you write a letter to President Obama on behalf of our JMN group and I can include it in our request for a public tour.  Again, I answered with an instantaneous YES!

Jonah, Vera, Jocelyn and I wrote the letter to President Obama over Mothers’ Day weekend.  My friend submitted the request with the letter and JMN was slotted a public tour of the White House Friday, June 26, 20015.  President Obama was scheduled to be in town and there was an ever so slight possibility that we would get a glimpse of him or meet him.  Only time would tell.

Time Passes, Life Goes On, & We Dream
We marked our calendars and went on living, doing, laughing, crying, dreaming, and carrying on.  We hit some big and some little milestones – and all of everyday life in-between:

  • Jonah graduated from kindergarten at his Montessori School. He was awesome at his school show - complete with a full on stage singing and dancing routine and a speech! 
  • Vera also finished Montessori school as they will both be attending a new school next year. Jonah will be in first grade and Vera will be in pre-k. We made good-bye cards and brought in “I will miss you very berry much” fruit salads for the last day of school. 
  • We took our family “summerofthefun2015” vacation the first week on June.
  • We traveled back to both Lancaster, PA and Rehoboth Beach, DE and had a fantastic time.  I was hoping to write a whole blog post entitled something like “Back to the Future” about our trip, but alas – life is short and days are busy here is short version of our trip.
    • Lancaster: We stayed at the same hotel that my parents stayed in about 40 years ago, The Lancaster Host Farm.  Back then it was brand new and a fancy vacation getaway resort for them.  We snagged a great deal on Certifikid and booked three nights at $75/night.  Last year we hung out in Pennsylvania and did the Hershey Park-Pretzel Making-Train Tour that ended with a day at Dutch Wonderland (see pictures here).  This year we did it a bit differently.  On Sunday, June 7, we drove to Lancaster and spent the first day hanging out at the “resort” – the kids play room, game room, indoor pool and outdoor pool with a dinner at Friendly’s.  On Monday, our second day, we visited the Amish Farm in the morning.  Then stopped for lunch and went on an actual horse and buggy ride in the afternoon with more playing in the hotel playroom and game room in the evening.  On Tuesday, our last day in Lancaster, we got up bright and early and we were at Dutch Wonderland when the park opened.  We were basically the only ones there and we had a blast!  The thing is I actually had a blast – as in me and not just the kids. That is what was so funny about the whole thing.  We went last year as well and we all had a great time.  I love that the park is so 1970s.  Maybe because it reminds me of my own childhood (my parents took me there when I was a kid) or just that it is so damn kitchy and not fancy that there is no pressure for it to be anything but what it is… And despite all that, despite the lack of sparkle, shine and smoothness – Jonah and Vera LOVE it!  I love that they love it.  Pony rides, bumper cars, log floom, spinning pandas, moving dinosaurs, silly spray park, Merlin’s restaurant, oldtime photos and the goofyest shows ever! One day we will go to Disney and all those other “fancy” super high tech parks, but hanging out at Dutch Wonderland makes us happy for now – and it gives me the illusion that things can stay simple for just a bit longer. That is the stuff that my dreams are made of…
    • Rehoboth: On Wednesday we drove the 2 ½ hours to Rehoboth beach and stayed on the boardwalk at the The Sands hotel.  It is no frills basic hotel with a great pool off the board walk.  We had a great two nights with lots of game playing and rides at Funland and skeeball at the arcade on our side of the boardwalk.  On Wednesday afternoon we arrived and we had an almost dreamlike experience at 5pm on the beach.  We had checked into the hotel and I took the kids to Funland right away while Jocelyn took a quick nap.  After hanging at Funland for a bit, we walked back on the boardwalk and met Jocelyn and ate pizza and then proceeded to the beach as everyone else was leaving.  The sun was moving its way across the sky and Jonah and Vera had their moment with the ocean.  It was incredible.  I took about 200 pictures in that 60 minutes or so.  Jocelyn and I were sitting on the sand watching them as they had this whole experience with the ocean - talking to it and to each other.  It was priceless. On Thursday we spent the day at the pool, the beach and on the boardwalk.  It was easy and fun.  We woke up on Friday morning and spent some time at the arcade and then headed home.  It was a fantastic summer road trip!
  • Vera had her hair braided with beads at the salon for the second time for the summer! (The first time was right before her “Books and Broadway” 3rd birthday party in March.)
  • Jonah finished his first season of Little League – Go Presidents!
  • Jonah had his 6th Birthday and his first friend bday party – a Lego Ninjago party.
  • We went on a family Pirate Ship celebration with another great family.   
  • We went family stargazing in Rock Creek Park with real life astronomers and super big telescopes.
  • Jonah and Vera finished another session of swim lessons!  Both of them can swim on their own!
  • We finished a calendar of Shabbots, tot Shabbots, and Gan at synagogue.
  • Jonah and Vera are now both excellent bike riders and scooter riders and we love going to the local playground to ride at 5pm when everyone else leaves.  Jonah can ride his two-wheeler without training wheels.
  • We made traditional Nutella blintzes for Shavuot.
  • We celebrated Memorial Day with a trip to the strawberry patch.
  • We started going back to our favorite outdoor public pool – Upshur Pool!
  • We started sort of training for Mommy’s and Mama’s big race in November (that is if one family run at the tracks counts for training)
  • Passed some more karate belt tests:  Jonah is now a blue belt and Vera is a purple belt.
  • Went to New York for our cousin’s ecumenical bar mitzvah and our grandpa’s retirement after 18 years of being an Episcopalian priest at his West Indian black church.
Sometimes Life is Scary and Sad
On Monday, June 15, Jonah and Vera started Barrie Day Camp.  It is a whole new schedule for our family.  I drive to work every morning with Jonah and Vera. On the way, we stop across the street from my office and wait for the camp bus stop at 8:19am.  Once they are on the bus, I go to work for the day. At the end of the day, I rush over to the bus stop to meet their bus at 5:39, but usually I have to wait. It usually shows up by 6 and we go home. 

They seem to love camp.  The first day they ran on the bus and did not look back!  They look so big, so grown up running on the bus with their big back packs – ready for anything, ready for everything.  There is a whole blog post in me just waiting to come out about day camp – that is for another day. But it was also a little bit scary – for me and for them.  It is a long day at camp.  It is totally different from the past two years at their small Montessori school.  They take a BUS?!?! They are basically outside all day. I know they were both a bit worried and anxious, but we have made it through the first few weeks and they seem happy and adjusted so far…

On Tuesday, June 17, we had an ordinary day of work and camp.  The kids were in bed by 8pm and I followed shortly thereafter.  But as we were all sleeping, safely and soundly in Washington, DC – terror and hate erupted in a church in South Carolina.  When we woke up on Wednesday, things were different.  The shooter, a young white man, walked into Emanuel AME Church, the oldest black church south of Baltimore around 9pm.  The shooter sat down with the Bible study group for about an hour, and then shot all of the congregants.  Nine people died.
  • Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd (54) – Bible study member and manager for the Charleston County Public Library system; sister of Malcolm Graham
  • Susie Jackson (87) – a Bible study and church choir member
  • Ethel Lee Lance (70) – the church sexton
  • Depayne Middleton-Doctor (49) – a pastor who was also employed as a school administrator and admissions coordinator at Southern Wesleyan University
  • Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney (41) – the church pastor and a South Carolina state senator
  • Tywanza Sanders (26) – a Bible study member; nephew of Susie Jackson
  • Daniel Simmons (74) – a pastor who also served at Greater Zion AME Church in Awendaw
  • Sharonda Coleman-Singleton (45) – a pastor; also a speech therapist and track coach at Goose   Creek High School
  • Myra Thompson (59) – a Bible study teacher
(the above info from Wikipedia)

Going to camp for the first time at 4 or 6 years old, that should be a little bit scary.  Attending bible study class at your church, in your hometown with your pastor, SHOULD NOT!  This shooting was a pure act of evil and hatred.  It was a terrorist attack by a racist man full of rage and hate.  He should be prosecuted as such.  The victims and their families should be remembered and honored for their faith and ability to forgive.  I was struck that week by how horrible real life can be sometimes.  Sometimes the news seems more like a bad dream – a terrible nightmare.  It is so hard to understand the depths of the racism and hatred in this country.  Not when I look into my children’s faces and their honest eyes.  It is learned, this racism and it is a disease.  I kept thinking about whether and how I would, should, or could discuss the shooting with Jonah and Vera.  But life kept going and I never did.

The Big Day
Fast forward to the next week, the week of June 22.  This was the week of our White House tour with JMN.  We were all very excited for the tour. This was the conversations we had in the car on the way to the bus stop on Thursday morning:

Jonah: When we go to the White House tomorrow, I am going to ask President Obama if Uptown Funk is his favorite song. (Note: Uptown Funk is Jonah’s favorite song and I have showed him videos of Michelle Obama dancing to it)

Me: Jonah, we may not actually meet President Obama tomorrow.

Jonah:  Well, didn’t he read our note to him?

Me: Yes, but you know he is President and he has a lot of work to do, like being in charge of the country.

Jonah: oh well, then I will ask Michelle about Uptown Funk. I know she likes it – she has a cool dance to it.

Me: Michelle may be helping President Obama and she may not be there either.  But it is ok because it will be very cool to visit the house that they live and work in.          

Jonah: ok, yeah.  I guess so.  I guess they are busy.  Maybe you can email them ask them if it is their favorite song?!?!?

Me: Ok I will see…

By Thursday night, we knew that President Obama was not supposed to be at the White House on Friday morning at 10am when our tour was scheduled because it was announced he would be traveling to South Carolina to give the eulogy at Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney’s funeral.  And that was exactly where he was supposed to be.  We would not be meeting President Obama on Friday and that was fine by me.

Dreams Come True
On Friday morning we got up and got ready and began our adventure to the White House.  We met JMN at the visitor’s gate.  We immediately hung out with our friends from Adat Shalom, but also met a bunch of new friends.  All of the families were so interesting and unique and beautiful.  All Jewish families.  Many local from DC, MD and VA.  And still others traveled from NJ, NY, MA and California for this tour.  All of different shades and colors but bonded by a commitment to respect each of our journeys without judgment. All of us inspired by President Obama, the first black President of the United States.  All of us together on line to visit President Obama’s White House. 

This being Washington, DC we were on line waiting and discussing politics and the Supreme Court.  How awesome that the day before the Supreme Court decided the cases on fair housing upholding disparate impact and affirming the Affordable Care Act.  And how important it was that President Obama was going to South Carolina.  What the elections in 2016 were going to look-like.  But also we were wrangling our toddlers, kids, and teenagers.  Not all of whom completely understood we need to wait on multiple lines, pass through multiple checkpoints and behave around the secret service agents… We met one family in front of us on the line and we were laughing with them.  The mom in front of me was with her two teenage daughters and she was sharing that knowing smile with Jocelyn and me. Recognizing that our significantly younger kids were not as cooperative as her two daughters.  She just said something like – there is light at the end of the tunnel.  To which Jocelyn responded, what are you kidding me – We are LIVING THE DREAM!!!!  The other mom burst out laughing.  She loved that.  And she agreed wholeheartedly – we are all “Living the dream!” – Despite the temper tantrums and yelling and crying and exhaustion – this is exactly what Jocelyn and I dreamed about when we committed to starting this family.  And we are so lucky.

Just about that time, all of our electronic devices began buzzing.  The Supreme Court decided the marriage equality case – for same-sex marriage.  Although, it was not a surprise, it was amazing to be online just about to enter the White House and to hear the news.  Our marriage, all same-sex marriages are legal in all 50 states.  Well done U.S. Supreme Court. Sometimes dreams do come true.

In the next minute we approached the White House entrance. Stopped for a quick photo. And then walked in.  Now, I am not making this up but the first thing we saw immediately upon entering the White House were pictures of Michelle Obama dancing on the Ellen show to Uptown Funk!!!  I thought I was dreaming!  There was a caption explaining the whole thing.  The photos were there because the White House had an exhibit for Gay Pride month in which in had pictures and posters throughout the tour telling of stories related to Gay Pride.  The caption was something like: Michelle was on Ellen – how Ellen was groundbreaking for coming out in the national spotlight and how now she has a super popular TV show and that Michele and her danced to Uptown Funk on her show. Seriously, I was not dreaming…  Immediately I showed Jonah and read him the caption.  He did not get the gay stuff but he did get the Uptown Funk reference.  He was happy.  I tell you.  We are Living the Dream.

We walked through the rooms on a self-guided tour.  Reading the references to gay issues and moments.  And listening to Rabbi Fred who had obviously prepared to voluntarily lead parts of our group with commentary through the tour with lots of information specifically geared to social justice and racial connection.  He did it in the way that a great rabbi does it – with grace, compassion, empathy and intellectual honesty.  Was this all really happening?  Was I dreaming?  Did my kids have any idea what was going on?  They were busy following their junior ranger books and doing a “treasure hunt” in all the rooms – just as it should be.

We made our way through the White House and emerged from the White House and re-congregated as a group.  When you get out you are allowed to take photos once again.  We gathered around, said the Sheheckianu together (I may have shed a tear or two – was I dreaming?) And then took a group a photo.  Then we heard the news.  President Obama had not left yet.  He was there – and giving a speech in the Rose Garden on the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage.  Ok, now it really was like I was in dream.  Seriously?

We made an attempt to walk out the exit and around to the speech area but by the time we made our way onto the street, we watched just as his helicopter lifted off from the White House.  I told the kids to wave, that President Obama was in there and off to do some work.

We all went to lunch together at the Ronald Reagan Building.  We came back home with one of Jonah’s friends from the group. We had planned a little play date in between events as many of us were gathering for a JMN Shabbot dinner later that night.   The play date was sort of a disaster.  Jonah and Vera spent most of the playdate alternating in time out, while their friend was a prefect Angel.  Living the Dream I tell you.

Shabbot was wonderful and compelling.  By then Jonah and Vera bounced back and spent the time hanging out with the group of kids all ages and colors. They all had a great time hanging out because kids, that is what kids do – before they are taught to hate for artificial and nonsensical reasons.

We all slept well that night.  We all had sweet dreams.

The next day I watched President Obama’s remarks at the Rose Garden on same-sex marriage and at the funeral.  They were perfect. I could not have dreamed of anything more perfect.  He got it right both times.

You see it was a great week for us.  But it was also tempered by the fights still needing to be fought.  I wrote a Facebook post on Friday trying to some it all up:

It has been a good week. Today was a great day. We were on line for our White House tour with the Jewish Multiracial Network this morning when the SCT decision came out. We were in the White House when the President make his remarks on marriage equality and we were on the street - just finished the tour when we watched as he left on Marine1 to speak in South Carolina at the funeral. Jonah and Vera do not have a clue why this is all so historic but we will keep telling them these stories and it is part of their story - our American story. Tonight, I am thankful, proud, happy and joyful. We still have so much work to do and I am committed to doing it each and every day in all different ways. Health care, disparate impact in housing, and gay marriage were big wins this week - but complete and total respect and equal protection under our laws and in our hearts for each other no matter the color of our skin, our religion, our ethnicity, our sexual identity, our sexual preference, or our gender is necessary all the time for everyone - our work is not done. But as it says in genesis - on the seventh day God rested and said "it is very good" and that was shabbot. We are celebrating shabbot tonight, celebrating certain equality and praying for peace and equality - tikkun olam - for everyone. In our very modern family of two moms, two kids or three women and one boy- or biracial kids, white mom and black mom or interfaith marriage with Jewish kids - however you want to describe us - we agree - it is very good - tonight we rest, but then we go back to work again. ‪#‎AllLivesMatter ‪#‎LoveWins ‪#‎summerofthefun2015- (clearly a blog post is in the making). Shabbot shalom everyone! And thank you to everyone who have supported us and these causes and all of the amazing hard work that has gotten us here - where we are today!
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And that is it.  I am Living the Dream.  I am lucky and blessed and aware of how much work is left to be done in my own little family and in the world.  I yell too much.  I lose my temper too quickly.  I fail to be present and mindful way too often.  And the world – in the world there s so much more to be done.  Tikkun Olam must happen every day, every moment, every chance we have.  I am working or trying to work on that too.

But in one instant.  In one breath.  All of it can disappear and the dream vanishes.  We wake up to a nightmare.  The families of those killed in South Carolina are living in that nightmare as are so many others – for so many reasons.  Poverty. Discrimination. Gun Violence. Inequality. Ignorance. Hatred. Anti-Semitism. Homophobia. Sexism. Transphobia. Greed. Domestic Abuse. Child Abuse. Sexual Abuse. Environmental Waste. Whatever it is.  Only some of us get the dream.

I am so very thankful o get my version of the dream and hopeful that many others will get theirs to.  It comes with work.  We are committed to do the work.  I hope you will too.

But it will not happen when we wake up and find out  that a number of black churches have burned since the tragedy at AME church.  This is a nightmare - not a dream.

#AllLivesMatter
#BlackLivesMatter
#LoveWins
#LivingtheDreamForEveryone

Here are the pictures from our JMN White House Tour

Our family as we left the White House - 



The next generation! Love these little JMNers!

Our JMN group outside of the White House!


Here are our #LoveWins pictures:


Jocelyn and Heather in Central Park, NYC on March 4, 2007 - our Purim wedding.

Standing in the middle of Times Square,NYC right before we got married on March 4, 2007 - Purim.

October 2009 - Equality March on Washington with a little Jonah.

We walked with our awesome friends at the Family Equality Council at the October 2009 march - as we walked by the White House we chanted - "Obama, Obama, Let Mama marry Marma!"

On the way home from the March in 10/09, we saw this rainbow from the car...

Our signs when we took Vera and Jonah to the protests outside of the Supreme Court on March 26, 2013 for same-sex marriage

Our signs when we took Vera and Jonah to the protests outside of the Supreme Court on March 26, 2013 for same-sex marriage

Protesting makes you hungry! A pit stop after hanging on the steps on the Supreme Court.

Our friends at the Family Equality Council invited us to attend the White House Easter Egg Roll in March 2013

Some other awesome friends invited us to the 2015 Easter Egg Roll this year.

Listening to President Obama and FLOTUS! 2015 Easter Egg Roll

And here we all are on June 26, 2015 right before we are about to tour the White house with JMN, just after hearing the Supreme Court's decision that same-sex marriage is no legal in all 50 states.



And here are the pics since Dec. 1:


School Winter Concert 2015!!

School Winter Concert 2015!! JOnah is the EmCee

School Winter Concert 2015!! Splish Splash!

School Winter Concert 2015!! Rocking it on stage

Family Chanukah 2014 - dreideling!

Family Chanukah 2014!

Chanukah presents - disco dreidels

Frosty made his appearance this year as well - Winter 2014

Chanukah 2014 - pre bat mitzvah candle lighting

NYC Winter 2014 - American Museum of Natural History!

Winter 2014 - NYC Subway

Winter 2014 - NYC Greg's apt - candle lighting and chanukah 3d glasses

Winter 2014 - visiting NYC buddies

2014 Christmas Eve with our cousins in Baltimore

Winter 2014 - Super Science Sunday - Light & Kaleidoscopes

December 2014 at Zoolights with our buddies from NY


NYE 2014 party bowing with our NY buddies

January 1 2015 - Visiting the Mansion on O street with NY buddies.

January 2015 - first geocahe of 2015

January 2015 - at the diner.

January 2015 - first snow on 2015

Celebrating MKL JR day 2015  in Florida with Nana and Pop 

Celebrating MKL JR day 2015  in Florida with Nana and Pop 

Celebrating MKL JR day 2015  in Florida with Nana and Pop & alligators!

Celebrating MKL JR day 2015  in Florida with Nana and Pop & alligators!

Celebrating MKL JR day 2015  in Florida with Nana and Pop & alligators!

Celebrating MKL JR day 2015  in Florida with Nana and Pop

Celebrating MKL JR day 2015  in Florida with Nana and Pop


Happ Groundhog's day 2015

Happy Valentine's Day 2015


A valentine's day haircut

Happy Birthday Abe Lincoln!

Happy birthday Abe Lincoln!

First belt test of 2015


Making our Purim Shaloch Manot - Feb 2015

Making our hamantaschen for Purim - Feb 2015
PURIM 2015 - Theme - NinJEWgo!

Visiting mommy at work - March 2015

Happy St Patrick's Day 2015

First day of Little League - March 2015

Vera gets her hair braided at the salon for the first time - March 2015

Celebrating Vera's bday at school - 3/30/15

Vera had a Books & Broadway 4th bday party!  Fun!

Vera's 4th bday

Vera's 4th bday

Vera's 4th bday

Burning the chametz - Passover 2015

Passover 2015 at my buddy in MD.  Great 1st night seder!

Look who has the afikoman - Passover 2015

Second Seder in NY with our buddies and a great seder again!

Smile!  Who has lice?!?!?! Passover 2015

Easter 2015 Brooklyn, NY

Easter 2015 Brooklyn, NY

Easter 2015 Brooklyn, NY

Easter 2015 Brooklyn, NY


Easter 2015 Brooklyn, NY

Add cEaster 2015 Brooklyn, NY


Future President - White house Easter egg Roll 2015

Future President - Easter Egg Roll White House 2015

White house Easter Egg Roll 2015

Take Your kid Work Day April 2015 - we visited the CPSC lab!


End of Year School show - April 2015

End of Year School show - April 2015

End of Year School show - April 2015 - speech

End of Year School show - April 2015 - diploma

Add captionEnd of Year School show - April 2015 - lunch at the diner


Another belt test - May 2015
Biking at the Park!  May 2015

Lag Bomer - May 2015  desert bonfires


Pirate ship Cruise Almost summer 2015

Rock Creek Park Stargazing 

Rock Creek Park Stargazing

Rock Creek Park Stargazing

Cousin fun BBQ for Grandma's bday - May 2015 - Shady Side

Making blintzes - Shavuot 2015


Strawberry Picking - Memorial Day 2015

Strawberry Picking - Memorial Day 2015

Summer Vacay 2015 - Lancaster

Summer Vacay 2015 - Lancaster

Summer Vacay 2015 - Lancaster

Summer Vacay 2015 - Lancaster

THIS WAS LAST YEAR - SAME SOT! SUMMER VACAY 2014!!!!!  ha ha ha

Summer Vacay 2015 - Lancaster

Summer Vacay 2015 - Lancaster

Summer Vacay 2015 - Lancaster


Summer Vacay 2015 - Rehoboth

Summer Vacay 2015 - Rehoboth

Summer Vacay 2015 - Rehoboth

Summer Vacay 2015 - Rehoboth

Summer Vacay 2015 - Rehoboth

Summer Vacay 2015 - Rehoboth


Final Little League Game - June 2015 - Vera was a great mascot!

Final Little League Game - June 2015 - What a difference a season makes!

Jonah's 6th birthday - Friends Lego Ninjago party!

Jonah's 6th birthday - Friends Lego Ninjago party!

Jonah's 6th birthday - Friends Lego Ninjago party!

Jonah's 6th Family birthday party! June 2015

Jonah's 6th Family birthday party! June 2015 - COUSINS!

The ecumenical Bar Mtizvah! Mazel Tov! June 2015

Grandpa's big retirement party! June 2015!

Father's Day 2015 - with Pop in Dix Hills

Father's Day 2015 - with Pop in Dix Hills

Father's Day 2015 - with Granpa in Brooklyn

First day of Camp - June 2015

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