Showing posts with label kids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kids. Show all posts
Monday, April 14, 2008
Anyone know anything about Paris?
Summer plans are underway and, it turns out it's cheaper for our family to get "around the world" tickets to the States than to go straight east. We're going Saipan-Tokyo-Paris as our first stop, where we'll spend five day. Anyone out there been to Paris? Can you recommend which part of Paris a romantic couple with four children ages 3, 5, 7 and 9 should stay? I've spent the last hour looking at vacation apartments in Paris, which seem to be the way to go for us. But in which part of the city?
Friday, February 22, 2008
Days Like This
The kids are off for two days this week because of parent-teacher conferences. Here is what my day looked like yesterday.
- 3 AM: Child 4 awakens. I can't get back to sleep. Welcome to the day.
- 5:45 AM: Drive to Garapan for 6 AM run. Running buddy sleeps in. I'm too tired to run alone. Drive back home.
- 7 AM: Drive to San Jose for radio interview with Harry Blalock on KZMI for Kite Festival March 1
- 8:30 AM: Parent-Teacher Conference for Child 1
- 9:15 AM: Go to the office to examine patients I operated on yesterday
- 10 AM: Take Child 3 to dental appointment
- 11 AM: Take Child 2 and 3 to ENT appointment, get X-rays, schedule hearing test.
- 12 PM: Drive Child 2 to San Vicente to play with a friend.
- 1 PM: Arrive back in Garapan for 1 PM meeting
- 2:30 PM: Take Child 1 to jewelry making workshop
- 3:30 PM: Parent-Teacher Conference for Child 3
- 4:30 PM: Prepare to take Child 1 to dance class. Child 1 decides not to go, no arguments from me. I lie down to take a nap.
- 6 PM: Wake up, eat, drive to Garapan for 6:30 meeting.
- 8:30 PM: Meeting over, Mara and I drive to Hyatt to walk in the gardens and chill. Get tour of new spa. Very nice.
- 9:15 PM: Get home, end of day, good night.
Monday, June 25, 2007
My Summer
Renovation started yesterday at Brilliant Star School, and I’m leading the construction management of this project, along with Shazam’s Rob, and another of the school’s parents. We have forty days to renovate two of these old buildings and turn them into an upper elementary classroom and a primary (3-6 year old) classroom by August 3.
It may seem strange that I’m doing construction management, but I’ve done it before. I spent my summer doing the same thing six years ago, when we moved the school up to its Navy Hill campus. Mara and I started this school through a series of fortuitous events, never imagining that what started as a Toddler Enrichment Program for Nava when she was a year old, would become a world-class school with 100 students representing some 14 ethnicities, programs for kids from 18 months to 12 years old, a magnificent campus, six classroom buildings with 7500 square feet of space, a seven member Board of Trustees and something like 15 faculty and staff. We just learned along the way, and for many years now, we've been in the background, letting all the other talented people lead the institution.
My other primary activity of the summer will be driving. Too bad these guys can't drive yet.
Take tomorrow for example. I’m transporting my kids to or from events at the following times: 9 AM, 10 AM, 12 PM, 1 PM, 3 PM, 4 PM and 5 PM. They need to get to
With gas at $3.54 a gallon now, I’m glad I drive a Prius.
The big, huge, humongous, stupendous event of the summer is that Mara’s mother, Carol, is moving to Saipan from Tucson. Mara is in Hawaii right now, awaiting her mom’s arrival from LA. They get to Saipan via Narita and Nagoya on Wednesday night. Mara has spent the better part of the last six months coordinating this move, which involves five dogs, two cats and a lifetime of personal effects. It’s a big move for Carol, and one taking a lot of courage. Here’s to family!
I'm looking forward to the start of the soccer season as a member of the acclaimed "Buns and Hoses" co-ed team. I haven't played since medical school, so I imagine I'll spend a fair bit of time just trying to breath. If you haven't joined a team yet, I think our team is still looking for some members. This is a laid back way to play on a fun team.
Oh, yeah, and I’ll be doing some eye surgery and stuff this summer too.
We're turning two of these:
Into a couple of these:
It may seem strange that I’m doing construction management, but I’ve done it before. I spent my summer doing the same thing six years ago, when we moved the school up to its Navy Hill campus. Mara and I started this school through a series of fortuitous events, never imagining that what started as a Toddler Enrichment Program for Nava when she was a year old, would become a world-class school with 100 students representing some 14 ethnicities, programs for kids from 18 months to 12 years old, a magnificent campus, six classroom buildings with 7500 square feet of space, a seven member Board of Trustees and something like 15 faculty and staff. We just learned along the way, and for many years now, we've been in the background, letting all the other talented people lead the institution.
Here are some of the Trustees at the last Board meeting.
My other primary activity of the summer will be driving. Too bad these guys can't drive yet.
Take tomorrow for example. I’m transporting my kids to or from events at the following times: 9 AM, 10 AM, 12 PM, 1 PM, 3 PM, 4 PM and 5 PM. They need to get to
Art classes
Eco Camp
And tennis lessons.
Eco Camp
And tennis lessons.
With gas at $3.54 a gallon now, I’m glad I drive a Prius.
The big, huge, humongous, stupendous event of the summer is that Mara’s mother, Carol, is moving to Saipan from Tucson. Mara is in Hawaii right now, awaiting her mom’s arrival from LA. They get to Saipan via Narita and Nagoya on Wednesday night. Mara has spent the better part of the last six months coordinating this move, which involves five dogs, two cats and a lifetime of personal effects. It’s a big move for Carol, and one taking a lot of courage. Here’s to family!
I'm looking forward to the start of the soccer season as a member of the acclaimed "Buns and Hoses" co-ed team. I haven't played since medical school, so I imagine I'll spend a fair bit of time just trying to breath. If you haven't joined a team yet, I think our team is still looking for some members. This is a laid back way to play on a fun team.
Oh, yeah, and I’ll be doing some eye surgery and stuff this summer too.
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