Thursday, November 8, 2012
Make Meaning, which offers creative activities for adults and kids, is popular amongst celebrity moms.
A popular family activity chain that's drawn the attention of celebrities including Melissa Joan Hart and Katie Holmes is targeting Bethesda for its newest location. Make Meaning—a shop that offers artistic activities for kids and adults—is set to open in early March 2013 on Bethesda Avenue. The shop offers seven “creative experiences” that include cake decorating, ceramics, candles, glass, jewelry, soap and paper. A variety of activities are available for each -- for example, visitors can whip up anything from a glass coaster to a glass serving platter as a part of the glass "creative experience." “Make Meaning is a really cool place and it’s like nothing you’ve ever seen before,” said Daniel Nissanoff, CEO of Make Meaning. “It’s a place …
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
On any given evening at our house, chances are high that at some point, someone will begin weeping, writhing or at least gnashing their teeth over homework. That someone is not always one of the children.
I hate to quibble with a masterpiece, but I have to say, Dante's Inferno is incomplete. It lacks a circle of hell devoted to homework. If Mr. Alighieri were alive today and a parent in Chevy Chase, I am sure he'd correct this oversight, perhaps by substituting the torments of the damned—students and their parents—for that canto on the virtuous pagans. (Hell always seemed kind of a harsh fate for poor, blind Homer.) Dante, after all, is one of the greatest poets who ever lived, so I am sure he could fit plenty of Wall Words into terza rima. If my Inferno allusion isn’t working for you, how about this one: Hell is other people’s homework. On any given afternoon or evening at our house, chances are high that at some point, someone will begin …
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
It can be really hard to find the time for everyone to sit down together. Don't beat yourself up over it — and don't give up.
Last night was a typical night at our house. At 6:30 on the dot, accessorized with high heels, two ropes of pearls and a frilly apron, I pulled a roast out of the oven to the cheers of my freshly scrubbed, appreciative children and beaming husband, all seated around the kitchen table that everyone had eagerly pitched in to help set. We discussed current affairs and the events of our days with insight and good manners, and then cleaned up, singing our favorite songs to lighten our work, before heading off for a lively round of charades before bed. I suppose I didn't have you believing me for too long. (In fact, anyone who knows me would immediately be tipped off by the high heels and pearls, not to mention dinner at 6:30 on the dot.) Like …
Monday, December 27, 2010
Every December, people drive by our house and wonder if they are seeing double. They're not; we just have a slightly peculiar tradition. All over Chevy Chase, families define the holidays with deeply personal rituals and customs.
The joys of the holiday season include the festive whirl of activities, the giddiness of gift-giving, familiar aromas of once-a-year feasts and the warmth of time spent with family and friends. We anchor this time and try to inspire lifelong memories, through the traditions we carry on or create for our families. My own family's most noticeable tradition began innocently enough. When my husband and I moved to Washington D.C., my mother began buying the annual White House Christmas tree ornament as a gift for us. Within a few years, we had amassed quite a collection, and the story might have ended there if it hadn't been for my growing — how shall I put this? — internal dissonance over our Christmas tree. Yes, Virginia, I am a control …
Friday, November 12, 2010
Adoptive children and their parents can celebrate National Adoption Awareness Month at the annual Kids' Adoption Network Conference.
November is National Adoption Awareness Month. Nearly 60 percent of American families are touched by adoption in some way, according to The Adoption Institute. For those families, the month is a time to reflect on what adoption means to them. For adopted kids, adoptive parents, and prospective parents, the 15th Annual Kids' Adoption Network (K.A.N.) Conference, sponsored by the Center for Adoption Support and Education (C.A.S.E.) is a way to spend the day learning about the latest research and exploring new tools to help normalize the adoption experience. "When we speak about normalizing adoption," said Ellen Singer, adoption therapist and educator at C.A.S.E. "We mean that there are predictable, common joys and challenges to being …
Bora Mici
4:57 pm on Tuesday, September 20, 2011
haha! vocabulary forest :) more ›